GUWonder
Feb 18, 07, 8:59 pm
News pending.
Newsstand - Explosions on Train Carrying Delhi-Lahore (India-Pakistan) Passengers
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GUWonder
Feb 18, 07, 9:01 pm
NEW DELHI, Feb 19 (Reuters) - About 60 passengers are feared to have burned to death after suspected blasts aboard a train bound from India to Pakistan, officials said on Monday.
"It appears to be a case of sabotage," B.N. Mathur, a top railway official, told reporters. "We have found two suitcases, there were IEDs in them," he said referring to improvised explosive devices.
About 50 passengers were also reported wounded.
The coaches of the Samjhauta Express train, which connects New Delhi to the northern Pakistani city of Lahore, erupted in fire near Panipat town, about 80 km (50 miles) north of the Indian capital, around midnight on Sunday (1830 GMT).
The incident comes days before Pakistani Foreign Minister Khursheed Mehmood Kasuri is due in New Delhi for talks with Indian leaders to push forward a slow-moving peace process between the old rivals.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/DEL342062.htm
"It appears to be a case of sabotage," B.N. Mathur, a top railway official, told reporters. "We have found two suitcases, there were IEDs in them," he said referring to improvised explosive devices.
About 50 passengers were also reported wounded.
The coaches of the Samjhauta Express train, which connects New Delhi to the northern Pakistani city of Lahore, erupted in fire near Panipat town, about 80 km (50 miles) north of the Indian capital, around midnight on Sunday (1830 GMT).
The incident comes days before Pakistani Foreign Minister Khursheed Mehmood Kasuri is due in New Delhi for talks with Indian leaders to push forward a slow-moving peace process between the old rivals.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/DEL342062.htm
GUWonder
Feb 18, 07, 9:47 pm
Reported as of now:
64 die on India train; explosives cited
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070219/ap_on_re_as/india_train_fire
64 die on India train; explosives cited
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070219/ap_on_re_as/india_train_fire
GUWonder
Feb 19, 07, 9:49 am
At least 66 people now reported dead.
Most of the people were travellers visiting family or traders/businesspeople engaged in cross-border trade.
Apparently this is the highest count of foreigners killed in a single attack on Indian soil in the past decade (if not more).
Most of the people were travellers visiting family or traders/businesspeople engaged in cross-border trade.
Apparently this is the highest count of foreigners killed in a single attack on Indian soil in the past decade (if not more).
mattkorey
Feb 20, 07, 2:08 pm
The most horrifying part was that there were bars on the windows and the car doors were locked and couldn't be opened by the passengers who burned to death. Those sorts of unsafe conditions seem just amazing. It's not like there has never been other train bombings, it seems like they should allow for some sort of escape mechanism.