Railway authorities canceled all night trains in an eastern Indian state Saturday after a passenger express train derailed and was hit by a cargo train, killing at least 115 people and injuring hundreds. The government accused Maoist rebels of sabotaging the tracks, AP reported. Railway workers and paramilitary soldiers used cranes to lift and pry apart train cars to pull out more bodies from the Jnaneswari Express, which was heading from Calcutta to suburban Mumbai when it derailed early Friday. «So far we have pulled out 115 bodies. The clearing work will continue until the light fades,» said Srikumar Mukherjee, state minister for civil defense, who is overseeing rescue operations at the crash site near the small town of Sardiha, about 90 miles (150 kilometers) west of Calcutta in West Bengal state. More than 140 people with injuries were in hospitals in towns near the accident site, officials said. Railway officials said some bodies were still trapped between the engines of the two trains, which smashed together when the high speed passsenger train derailed and was run over by an oncoming cargo train. -- SPA
