{"id":159743,"date":"2022-01-14T11:25:38","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T03:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=159743"},"modified":"2022-01-14T11:42:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T03:42:00","slug":"five-killed-dozens-injured-in-india-train-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=159743","title":{"rendered":"Five Killed, Dozens Injured In India Train Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Shakir Husain<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NEW DELHI, Jan 14 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; At least five people were killed and dozens injured in a train crash in India&#8217;s West Bengal state on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Twelve coaches of the Guwahati-Bikaner Express train derailed near Maynaguri town in the Jalpaiguri district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senior government officials were at the crash site to supervise rescue and relief operations, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The train was travelling from Patna in Bihar to Guwahati in the northeastern state of Assam, according to local media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We felt a sudden shock. We were all rocking violently and luggage kept on upper berths tumbled all around,&#8221; one survivor said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Visuals from the accident site showed damaged coaches and crowds of distraught passengers and locals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Personally monitoring the situation for swift rescue operations,&#8221; Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said in a tweet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Shakir Husain NEW DELHI, Jan 14 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; At least five people were killed and dozens injured in a train crash in India&#8217;s West Bengal state on Thursday. Twelve coaches of the Guwahati-Bikaner Express train derailed near Maynaguri town in the Jalpaiguri district. Senior government officials were at the crash site to supervise rescue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,288,286],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159743"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}