SARDIHA-India, according to latest news, a high speed train was destroyed in Eastern India with sleeping passengers. The train smashed into the path of a cargo train, Friday. 71 have lost their lives and more than 200 have been injured.
Local television news channels showed that it was the Maoist rebels, also known as Naxalites, was behind the said incident. Officials of West Bengal approved that Maoist sabotaged the tracks and caused accident. Upon inspecting the accident area the police said that they found leaflets and posters and believed that it was owned and manage by the Maoist rebels.
West Bengal police in chief, Bhupinder Singh state that the accident was work done by the Maoist rebels. They decided with the help of the People’s Committee to Prevent Police Atrocities (PCPA) that they will take in charge and responsible in the said incident although a PCPA spokesman later contacted the news agency to deny the group’s involvement.
“It shows to be a case of sabotage where a portion of the railway track was removed,” Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram said in a statement. “Whether explosives were used is not yet clear,” he said.
Police believe that the reason behind the accident was a bomb blast reported in NDTV, a television news station. Home secretary for West Bengal, Samar Ghosh, declared that 71 people were confirmed dead and at least 200 injured.
“We’re doing all we can, but I’m afraid there are still more bodies trapped in some of the carriages,” he told AFP.
The railway Minister, Mamata Bannerjee, said that the railways “a soft target” and Maoist have attacked them in the past “and, it appears that it’s until now,” she believed.
Hours after the train attack, Chidambaram held a pre-scheduled meeting with the head of the army, General V.K. Singh.
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