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Wednesday, September 11, 2002
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Train derails in Inc
Luxury train jumps tracks, at least 80 left^
RAFIGANJ. India (AP) —
Rescuers recovered 67 bodies
Tuesday and 13 of the injured
died after a luxury train jumped
the tracks while crossing a
bridge in the remote countryside
in eastern India. One car
plunged 300 feet into a river and
two others hung perilously from
the colonial-era structure.
The Rajdhani Express, a lux
ury air conditioned train,
became a pile of twisted metal
minutes after it derailed on the
bridge in Bihar state Monday
night. Besides the at least 80
confirmed deaths, authorities
said more than 170 passengers
were injured.
K.K. Saxena, a top railway
official in the region, told
reporters one of the train cars
remained to be searched and
workers were using cutting
torches to open it.
“My foot is trapped. 1 can't
move it. Please take me out or I
will die,” a trapped passenger
could be heard to plead as res
cuers worked to open the car.
The train was carrying 535
passengers and 70 railway staff
when it jumped the tracks short
ly before midnight Monday. It
was traveling about 80 mph at
the time of the accident 420
miles southeast of New Delhi,
the capital.
In Patna, the Bihar state cap
ital, and in New Delhi, politi
cians criticized railway officials
for poorly maintaining the 86-
year-old bridge, built by the
British when they ruled India.
Railway officials denied the
charges. Some opposition polm
cians called for the railroad min
ister to resign, but his department
said the derailment was an act of
sabotage, perhaps the work of
anti-government militants.
“The bridge was poorly
maintained.’ said Laloo Prasad
Yadav, president of the
Rashtriya Janata Dal party that
governs Bihar.
India has more than 120,000
steel railway bridges and nearly
half were built a century ago.
After a 1998 train collision that
killed 210 people, an investiga
tive panel sought the urgent
replacement of 526 extremely
weak bridges, identified as "dis
tressed." The bridge over the
Dhave River, location of the
derailment Monday, was not
among them.
The aging bridges were
“ticking time bombs.' icttred
railway safety official K.J.
Diwakar told Press Trust of
India.
India’s state railway system
runs 7,000 passenger trains a
day on 66,875 miles of track —
the longest network outside
China. It reports about 300 acci
dents a year, two-thirds of them
blamed on worker negligence.
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German company investigated
for possible ties to terrorists
FITZBEK. Germany (AP) — Authorities raided
a trading company Tuesday that a German official
said once employed a suspected al-Qaida recruiter
who helped draft several Sept. 11 hijackers into
Osama bin Laden’s terrorist network.
Mohammed Haydar Zammar, believed to have
introduced Mohamed Atta to senior al-Qaida figures
in Afghanistan, worked for the Talari Design and
Tatex Trading GmbH firms, the German security
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