印度火车发生相撞数十人死忙百人受伤

日期：2010-07-20 | 阅读：

A train crash in eastern India has killed at least 52 people, officials say. 印度官员称，东部地区发生列车相撞事故，至少52人死亡。 A passenger trainploughed into（投入）another that was waiting at a station in th

A train crash in eastern India has killed at least 52 people, officials say.

印度官员称，东部地区发生列车相撞事故，至少52人死亡。

A passenger trainploughed into（投入）another that was waiting at a station in the town of Sainthia, West Bengal state, early on Monday.

About 90 people were injured in the accident.

TV footage showed local residents climbing through themangled（被损坏的）trains as they searched for survivors. The cause of the crash was not immediately known.

Emergency workers later usedgas cutters（气割器）and other tools to free passengers trapped in thewreckage（残骸）.

Bodies recovered

Local officials say the accident occurred at about 0200 local time on Monday (2030 GMT Sunday) when the Uttar Banga Express crashed into the stationary Bhagalpur-Ranchi Vananchal Express at the station in the Birbhum district, about 200km (125 miles) north of Calcutta.

The impact of the collision was so strong that the roof one of the coaches hit a footbridge above the tracks.

Birbhum districtmagistrate（地方法官）Soumitra Mohan later told the BBC that at least 52 bodies had been recovered.

He said that all the passengers trapped in the wreckage were rescued and all the injured were taken to hospitals, ending rescue operations.

Officials believe that the trains were packed with commuters heading back to work after spending a weekend with their families.

Many inter-city trains from Bengal to Calcutta have been cancelled because of the accident.

There is speculation that faulty signalling may have been the cause of the crash. A police investigation is now under way.

This is the second major railway accident in West Bengal this year.

In May, nearly 150 people died when a Bombay-bound passenger trainderailed（出轨）and was hit by a goods train. Police accused Maoist rebels ofsabotaging（妨害，破坏）the track, but Maoists denied the charge.

Accidents are common on the state-owned Indian railway, which operates an immense network connecting every corner of the vast country.

It operates 9,000 passenger trains and carries some 18 million passengers every day.

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