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At least 30 dead as Indian passenger train collides with tractor NEW DELHI (AFP) At least 30 people were killed when an Indian passenger train collided with a farm tractor pulling a trailer full of people at an unmanned crossing in central India, police said yesterday. "About 30 to 40 people have died in the accident. The exact figures are not yet known," Pran Kankhade, superintendent of police for Indian Railways at Nagpur told AFP. The collision occurred near Kanan village, 430 miles east of the financial capital of Bombay in Maharashtra state. Police said the tractor was pulling as many as 40 people to the nearby village of Ramtek, according to the domestic United News of India news agency. The injured have been taken to the Jawaharlal Nehru hospital in Kanan, Nagpur railways officials said. In December, a head-on train collision killed 38 people and injured 52 because of a signalling fault that allowed the trains onto a single track in the northern state of Punjab, 150 kilometers east of Amritsar. India's railways transport more than 13 million passengers daily on networks that sprawl 108,700 kilometers (66,800 miles) across the nation with a population of over one billion. It records around 300 accidents every year, some of which resulted in hundreds of deaths. |
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