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INDIAN TRAGEDY. People look on at the site of a collision between an express passenger train and a goods train in Nirmaljote, near Rangapani station in India’s West Bangal state on Monday. At least eight people were killed when the trains collided in India’s West Bengal state, derailing three passenger carriages, police said.
Around 50 people were injured and taken to hospital, Jaya Varma Sinha, chairman of India’s Railway Board said in a statement.The dead included the driver and his co-driver, who missed the signal, as well as a train guard and five passengers, she added. The crash took place in the Phansidewa area of Darjeeling district, when the Kanchenjunga Express train was hit by the goods train.
The railways ministry said that drivers had been distracted because they were watching cricket on a phone, as hosts India played England during the one-day World Cup.
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