Train Accident Kills 21 in Eastern India
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Local Editor
A passenger train struck a crowded rickshaw, killing 21 people at a railway crossing in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, a railway official said on Tuesday.
All the passengers and the driver of the motorized rickshaw died in the accident that occurred late Monday, said a railway police superintendent.
The crossing gate was open and the rickshaw was crossing the track when the train hit it, dragging it for about 500 meters, the superintendent said.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team