The death toll in a collision between a passenger train and a trailer carrying dozens of wedding guests in central India rose to 55 on Friday after three more of the injured died in a hospital, a railway official said. Officials said 52 people were killed when the train rammed into a trailer at a level crossing on Thursday near Kanhan, a small town in Maharashtra state 800 kilometers (490 miles) northeast of Bombay. Three more people died in the hospital Friday, said Jagdish Kumar, deputy general manager of South-Eastern Central Railway, indicating that more of the seriously hurt in the accident could succumb to their injuries. "Another 15 people are in hospital, many of them with serious injuries sustained in the crash," he said. The dead included at least 30 women and 10 children.
