Maoists derail train in India, 80 dead

[Prometheus]

Kolkata: At least twenty passengers were killed and 150 injured when suspected Maoists blasted rail tracks in West Midnapore district early Friday derailing 13 coaches of a Mumbai-bound express train, five of which were hit by a speeding goods train.

Twenty of the bodies were extricated from the mangled coaches of the Howrah-Kurla Lokmanya Tilak Gyaneshwari Super Deluxe Express after the 13 coaches derailed with five toppling over an adjacent track, Additional Superintendent of Police, Jhargram, Mukesh Kumar said.

In New Delhi, Union Home Secretary G K Pillai told a news agency that 15 passengers were killed and 150 injured and the toll might go up.

"We suspect Maoist hand behind the blast," Vivek Sahai, Member (Traffic), Railway Board, said.

The blast occurred at 1:30 am when the train was running between Khemasoli and Sardiya stations, about 135 km from here, South Eastern Railway officials said.

SER PRO Soumitra Majumdar said that the express train had in all 24 coaches. After the explosion, 13 including 10 sleeper coaches, derailed of which five were hit by the goods train coming on the opposite track.

An unreserved coach, the pantry car and luggage van also derailed, he said.

Railway officials used gas cutter to extricate trapped passengers and bodies from the mangled remains of the affected coaches. Passengers’ belongings lay strewn scattered on the tracks.

Angry passengers said the first signs of relief came only around 5 am, three-and-a-half hours after the incident.

Nine of the coaches which were undamaged took the injured and the other passengers to Kharagpur where they were admitted to hospital.

Sahai said that railway had were in touch with the Indian air force to airlift passengers who were seriously injured.

Anti-Maoist forces were at the spot and assisting the police and rescue personnel in extricating the bodies from four badly damaged sleeper coaches S-5, S-6, S-7 and S-8.

Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee reached the spot. She announced Rs 5 lakh for the next of kin of each of the dead and Rs 1 lakh for the injured.

Senior railway officials including Railway Board Chairman SS Khurana and DG RPF rushed to the spot.

A relief train left Kharagpur with a team of 12 doctors and 20 paramedics as also two doctors from the Kalaikunda airbase, the officials said.

 

[sab]

Bengali TV channels are saying the death toll can be around 100. The location has no road conectivity so IAF choppers have been sent from Kolaikunda base for relief work.

 

[heavystorm]

----What a terrible thing it is! How sadness it is!----But I don't want to say "sorry" to Indian, because China had did nothing about this kind of things. Maoists has no relation to China. Though Mao Zedong was the great leader of China revolution, he lay in his memorial hall for over 30 years, many Chinese adore him all the same.
----As we all know, the China Communism Party never did such kind of things which killing common people. CCP own standard army and CCP was very kind with common people, so CCP got most of Chinese's support about 70 years ago.
----What confused me is that why Maoists of India killed common people? I can't believe it. If they are true Maoist, they would try their best to save people not to kill them.

----That kind of person who kill common people is anything but a Marxist or Maoist.

 

[sab]

----What a terrible thing it is! How sadness it is!----But I don't want to say "sorry" to Indian, because China had did nothing about this kind of things. Maoists has no relation to China. Though Mao Zedong was the great leader of China revolution, he lay in his memorial hall for over 30 years, many Chinese adore him all the same.
----As we all know, the China Communism Party never did such kind of things which killing common people. CCP own standard army and CCP was very kind with common people, so CCP got most of Chinese's support about 70 years ago.
----What confused me is that why Maoists of India killed common people? I can't believe it. If they are true Maoist, they would try their best to save people not to kill them.

----That kind of person who kill common people is anything but a Marxist or Maoist.

They are not true human beings forget about being true maoists or something else. It is not first incident on attack on common people. Almost everyday they kill some people terming them as agents of police or representative of other political organisation. Most of them are as poor as most of their cadres are. Few months back they blew off an ambulance that used to medical facilities in remote villages in West Bengal.

 

[aimarraul]

did india govt ever consider to offer amnesty and enlistment to those maoists

 

[sab]

did india govt ever consider to offer amnesty and enlistment to those maoists

They refused all offers. And why should they come and talk with Govt when they dont believe in Parliamentary government?

 

[aimarraul]

They refused all offers. And why should they come and talk with Govt when they dont believe in Parliamentary government?

then eradicate fountainhead ,maoist claim they are representing the farmers,india govt can push a new round of land reform ,the foundation will disintegrate itself

 

[Patriot]

Moists are attacking more like Talibans day by day..

 

[Emperor Palpatine]

Moists are attacking more like Talibans day by day..

They don't have the guts for that...derailing railway lines is as brave as they can get. this will only diminish support from the people

 

[Desertfalcon]

----What a terrible thing it is! How sadness it is!----But I don't want to say "sorry" to Indian, because China had did nothing about this kind of things. Maoists has no relation to China. Though Mao Zedong was the great leader of China revolution, he lay in his memorial hall for over 30 years, many Chinese adore him all the same.
----As we all know, the China Communism Party never did such kind of things which killing common people. CCP own standard army and CCP was very kind with common people, so CCP got most of Chinese's support about 70 years ago.
----What confused me is that why Maoists of India killed common people? I can't believe it. If they are true Maoist, they would try their best to save people not to kill them.

----That kind of person who kill common people is anything but a Marxist or Maoist.

You must be kidding. Is this common still in China that people are still unaware of the extent of the genocide under the rule of Chairman Mao? It is extremely well known in the west that Mao Zedong was responsible for the deaths of more of his own people than any other single leader in recorded history. By even the most conservative of estimates Mao was responsible for the deaths of at least 20 million Chinese during the "Great Leap Forward" and millions more during the "Culteral Revolution".

Even Hu Yaobang, former leader of the People's Republic of China, put the death toll under Mao's rule at at least 20 million killed.

 

[中华人民共和&#]

They don't have the guts for that...derailing railway lines is as brave as they can get. this will only diminish support from the people

...And garnish more from abroad. []+x-x=0

 

[中华人民共和&#]

You must be kidding. Is this common still in China that people are still unaware of the extent of the genocide under the rule of Chairman Mao? It is extremely well known in the west that Mao Zedong was responsible for the deaths of more of his own people than any other single leader in recorded history. By even the most conservative of estimates Mao was responsible for the deaths of at least 20 million Chinese during the "Great Leap Forward" and millions more during the "Culteral Revolution".

Even Hu Yaobang, former leader of the People's Republic of China, put the death toll under Mao's rule at at least 20 million killed.

Kinda different, Maoists=Terrorists

Mao Ze Dong that idiot only killed those who opposed him.

 

[Marxist]

Maoists are killing people but what our Nero's are doing at Delhi,as usual they will strongly condemn the attack and offer money to victims that's all.

 

[su-47]

Maoists are killing people but what our Nero's are doing at Delhi,as usual they will strongly condemn the attack and offer money to victims that's all.

in this regard we should learn from sri lanka. at first they tried to negotiate with the LTTE and the LTTE just got bolder and attacked more. But once Sri Lanka made the resolve to crush the LTTE, there was no stopping them.

I hope our Netas grow a pair and really make the resolve to go after the Maoist low-lives. I am sure once we set out heart to it we can easily eliminate this scum. We have the military and economic capability to tear Maoism out of India for good.

 

[sab]

then eradicate fountainhead ,maoist claim they are representing the farmers,india govt can push a new round of land reform ,the foundation will disintegrate itself

Farmers?????

Most of the Maoist strongholds are in dense Jungle. Most of the cadres are tribals. But it is true many of mines are in these areas.

It is fact that Maoists are trying to spread in among farmers or factory workers. But still they do not have much success in that.

But they get extortion money from different companies involved in mining in those areas. Few days back GOI declared 16% of profit from mining will be provided for development of these affected areas and people.