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56 killed in tractor-train crash
NEW DELHI (Reuters): A passenger train smashed into a tractor carrying people back from a wedding in central India, killing 56 people, most of them women and children, a railway spokesman said on Feb. 4.
The crash occurred late on Feb. 3 at an unmanned railway crossing about 14 miles from the city of Nagpur, railway authorities said. The dead included 32 women and 20 children, said Jagdish Kumar, a spokesman for South East Central Railways, a unit of state-run Indian Railways. He said the tractor was carrying at least 70 villagers at the time of the accident. He said 11 of the 14 injured were in critical condition at a hospital in the area. No one was injured on the train, which was traveling from Ramtek to Nagpur, a city more than 510 miles east of Mumbai.
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