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India Train Tragedy

A speeding passenger train crashed into another waiting at a station in West Bengal early Monday, killing dozens of people.

Monday, July 19, 2010
Indian rescue personnel conduct recovery operations on the mangled wreckage of train coaches following a railway accident in Sainthia, some 260 km north of from Kolkata, on July 19.
Indian rescue personnel conduct recovery operations on the mangled wreckage of train coaches following a railway accident in Sainthia, some 260 km north of from Kolkata, on July 19.
Photo Credit: Deshakalyan Chowdhury, AFP/Getty Images
  • Indian rescue personnel conduct recovery operations on the mangled wreckage of train coaches following a railway accident in Sainthia, some 260 km north of from Kolkata, on July 19.
  • Rescue workers and onlookers gather at the site of a train accident at Sainthia in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal July 19.
  • A crane lifts a damaged carriage of a passenger train at Sainthia.
  • Indian rescue personnel work inside a mangled train coach following a railway accident in Sainthia, some 260 km north of from Kolkata, on July 19.
  • Indian rescue personnel work at the site.
  • Onlookers (background) watch Indian rescue personnel conduct recovery operations at the site of a railway accident in Sainthia, some 260 km north of from Kolkata, on July 19.
  • Indian rescue personnel conduct recovery Indian rescue personnel conduct recovery operations on the mangled wreckage of train coaches following a railway accident in Sainthia, some 260 km north of from Kolkata, on July 19.
  • Onlookers watch Indian rescue personnel work at the site of a railway accident in Sainthia, some 260 km north of from Kolkata, on July 19.
  • Rescue workers and onlookers gather near the wreckage of a train engine at the site of an accident at Sainthia July 19.
  • Rescue workers and onlookers gather near the wreckage of train carriages at the site of an accident at Sainthia in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal July 19.
  • Soldiers and onlookers gather near the wreckage of train carriages at the site of an accident at Sainthia in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal July 19.
  • A victim of a train accident drinks water inside a hospital at Souri in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal July 19.
  • Victims of a train accident rest inside a hospital at Souri in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal July 19.
  • Indian rescue personnel work at the site.
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