On Friday, at about 1:30 in the morning in India, two railroad trains traveling parallel to one another, were in a collision with each other.
One of the trains, the passenger one, derailed and fell into the path of the on coming freight carrier. The result was the oncoming freight train crashed into the 13 passenger train cars sitting in its direct path.
There were 73 people who perished in the wreckage and another 115 wounded.
As evening approaches, there becomes more doubt that anymore people are alive in the wreckage.
Some are saying an explosive may have gone off to cause the rails to be be unsecured sending the train off the tracks. Others feel a section of the track, the fish plates, could have been taken out by someone.
There are leads going to the Maoist guerrillas in the area. Posters have been placed around proclaiming they did it. The Maoist are India’s most homeland threat to security in the country.
There is an investigation underway to find out the cause but the possibility of it being cause by the Maoist can not be eliminated.
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