Monday, July 19, 2010
63 dead, 150 injured as trains collide in West Bengal
July 19, 2010. SAINTHIA (Birbhum): Death came at express speed to the sleepy station of Sainthia early Monday when the Uttar Banga Express roared in at 90kmph and crashed into the rear of the Ranchi-bound Vananchal Express, which was about to pull out of the platform. At least 63 people died and more than 150 were injured but what increased the tragedy’s magnitude manifold was the bizarre sight it threw up—a compartment flung in the air by the impact and landing in a mangled heap on a 25-foot-high road bridge running across the station.
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