Train Crash in India, 15 killed
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 11:22 am
NEW DELHI: Train Crash in India, 15 killed, A train crashed into the rear of another in northern India early Wednesday, killing 15 people and leaving 50 trapped in the wreckage.
The local TV station, quoting a local police superintendent, said 15 bodies had been removed from the crash site on the tracks outside the city of Mathura, 150 km (93 miles) south of New Delhi.
Vijay Kumar, another police official in the nearby city of Agra, home of the Taj Mahal, the channel said the accident happened at 5:30 am local time (0000 GMT), but declined to give casualty figures or wounded.
He said the Goa Express had run into the back of a stationary train outside the station of Mathura. Rescuers were using mechanical cutters to cut the bars on the windows of the flattened end of the train stopped reaching people feared trapped inside. The news channel the death toll at 10-12, with 40-50 feared trapped.
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