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More Than 50 Killed in Train, Tractor Collision in India

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Police in western India say at least 52 people were killed and at least eight others injured Thursday, when a train collided with a tractor carrying a wedding party.

Police say the accident happened in a small village in Maharashtra state, some 800 kilometers northeast of Bombay, also known as Mumbai.

They say a local train bound for the central city of Nagpur smashed into a tractor as it was crossing the tracks.

Accidents are relatively frequent on India's railway network, which handles 13 million passengers on 14,000 trains every day.

In December, a head-on collision of two passenger trains in Punjab state brought opposition party calls for the resignation of Railways Minister Laloo Prasad Yadav. At least 37 people died in that crash.

Some information for this story provided by AP and AFP.

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