Train crash kills 10 in central India, injures 50

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Source: AP

NEW DELHI – A freight train on the wrong track slammed into a stopped passenger locomotive at a railway station amid heavy rain early Monday in central India, killing at least 10 people and injuring 50, officials said.

The death toll could rise as the debris is cleared, rail official R.S. Yadav said.

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The freight train was on a wrong track and hit the passenger train head-on, he told The Associated Press.

At least 50 passengers were injured, 10 of them seriously, said K.K. Dube, a railroad spokesman.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100920/ap_on_re_as/as_india_train_accident

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1. Only 10

Typical train in India!

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2. Death toll from India Train Crash Rises to 22

Bhopal, India. The death toll from a train crash in northern India Monday has risen to 22, area railways chief Ghanshyam Singh told AFP from the scene.

“So far we have extricated 20 bodies from the train and are tackling one carriage where two bodies are visible,” Singh said from Shivpuri district of Madhya Pradesh state, about 350 kilometers from the local capital Bhopal.

A railway spokesman in Bhopal, K.K. Dubey, said 50 people were injured of whom 18 had been hospitalized.

The Associated Press, which put the death toll at 21, reported that a freight train on the wrong track slammed into a stationary passenger locomotive at the Bhaderwah railway station amid heavy rain.

The death toll could rise as the debris of two damaged coaches were being cleared, rail official R.S. Yadav said.

Full article: http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/home/death-toll-from-india-train-crash-rises-to-22-railways/397100

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3. It's an absolute miracle that the number of deaths wasn't

much, much higher. The trains in India are packed jam-full, even the roofs have passengers.

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4. Clearly, this is Pakistan's fault.

Am I right, or am I right? :sarcasm:

[OhioChick]

5. 3, 2, 1.... n/t