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Awaz Apni CALCUTTA, India — A speeding express train plowed into a stationary passenger train in eastern India on Monday, killing 61 people in a crash so powerful it sent the roof of one car flying onto an overpass. Officials said they could not rule out sabotage. Residents crawled over the twisted wreckage trying desperately to free survivors before rescue workers arrived with heavy equipment to cut through the metal. Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee, who rushed to the site, 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. "We have some doubts in our mind," she said. The crash happened about 2 a.m. when the Uttarbanga Express slammed into the Vananchal Express as it left the platform at Sainthia station, about 125 miles north of Calcutta. The accident destroyed two passenger cars and a luggage car, turning them into a tangle of twisted metal. The ...

Awaz Apni India: Authorities in India's West Bengal state say at least 60 people were killed and some 100 were injured when one train crashed into another early Monday in eastern India. The authorities say the crash happened at about 2 a.m. local time when an express train slammed into a stationary train at Sainthia station in Birbhum district, about 200 kilometers north of Kolkata, the state capital. Television footage showed mangled wreckage of several carriages.  The force of the crash was so strong that the roof of one car flew into the air and landed on an overpass above the tracks. Rescue workers were looking for passengers who could be still trapped inside the wreckage. India's heavily-used rail network is one of the world's largest, with some 9,000 passenger trains carrying 18 million people every day.  There are about 300 Indian rail accidents every year.