NEW DELHI: Rescuers struggled Sunday to pull survivors from the wreckage of a train crash which killed 39 passengers in India, the latest disaster on the country’s creaking rail network. “The death toll has gone up to 39,” said J.P. Mishra, a spokesman for East Coast Railways. Anil Kumar Saxena, national railway spokesman, said investigators were considering the possible sabotage of the tracks by Maoist rebels who he said were active in the area. Kuneru is not a Naxal-hit area,” an unidentified senior intelligence officer was quoted as saying by the Press Trust of India. Last month two people were killed and dozens injured after another train derailed in the north.

Source: Manila Times January 23, 2017 13:05 UTC