Sabotage suspected as train crash kills 56

An express train crashed with a passenger train at a station in eastern India early today, mangling the carriages and killing 56 people, railway police said.

An express train crashed with a passenger train at a station in eastern India early today, mangling the carriages and killing 56 people, railway police said.

Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee raised the possibility the crash could have been another case of sabotage, two months after Maoist rebels were blamed for a derailment that killed 145 people.

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