A freight train collided with a passenger train in eastern India on Monday, killing at least eight people and injuring 50 others, officials said. Four coaches of the popular and often-crowded passenger train derailed when it was rammed from behind by the commercial train. Images from the accident site showed one of the passenger coaches lifted off the railway track and balancing on a coach of the freight train. The driver and the assistant driver of the freight train and a guard on the passenger train were among those killed. Jaya Varma Sinha, the chairperson of India’s railway board, said rescue operations were completed.

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Persons: Jaya Varma Sinha, Ashwini Locations: India, West Bengal, Tripura, Local, India’s