At least five killed as Indian passenger and goods trains collide

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At least five killed as Indian passenger and goods trains collide

At least five people were killed when a passenger train and a goods train collided in India on Monday.

Images on Indian broadcasters showed tangled wreckage of carriages flipped on their side, and one thrust high into the air precariously balanced on another. Banerjee said the crash took place in the Phansidewa area of Darjeeling district, when the Kanchenjunga Express train was hit by a goods train.The incident is the latest to affect India's creaking rail network, which carries millions of passengers daily.

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