Death toll from train collision in India has increased to at least 15

YEREVAN, JUNE 17, ARMENPRESS. The number of people who died in a train collision in West Bengal's Darjeeling district has reached to at least 15. About 60 have been injured, Business Standard reports. 

"Rescue operation has been completed. The driver (Locomotive pilot) who disregarded the signal has died and also the guard of Kanchenjunga Express has lost his life," Jaya Varma Sinha, chairman and CEO of the Railway Board is quoted as saying.

The accident took place about seven km from Bengal's New Jalpaiguri station at around 9 am. At least two compartments of the Kanchenjunga Express were derailed after a goods train slammed into it from behind.