Train crash kills at least eight people in eastern India

Onlookers watch as rescuers work after a cargo train rammed into Kanchanjunga Express, a passenger train, near New Jalpaiguri station, West Bengal state, India (Diptendu Dutta/AP)

A cargo train has crashed into a passenger train in India’s eastern state of West Bengal, killing at least eight people and injuring several others.

The state’s chief minister Mamata Banerjee said in a post on social media platform X, formerly Twitter, that a cargo train had collided with the Kanchanjunga Express in the state’s Darjeeling district on Monday.