A passenger train car was left jutting into the air in India, wedged up by a freight train that slammed into it, killing at least 8 people.
New Delhi — At least eight people were killed and more than others 50 injured when a freight train slammed into a passenger train Monday in India . The crash happened in the eastern India n state of West Bengal, when the goods train hit the Kanchanjunga Express in the New Jalpaiguri area, derailing at least three of the passenger train's cars. The Kanchanjunga Express was travelling from Silchar in Assam state to Sealdah in Kolkata when the collision occurred.
Officials later raised the confirmed death toll to eight.The accident forced a suspension of all train services on the Kolkata-Siliguri line, officials said.'The rescue work is complete,' Jaya Verma Sinha, chairperson of the Indian Railway Board told reporters, adding that injured victims were being provided 'the best possible treatment.'Sinha said human error appeared likely to have caused the accident, as 'it seems that the driver of the goods train disregarded the signal.
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