国际英语新闻：Mystery shrouds deadly train collision in eastern India

The guard of the Vananchal Express A. Mukherjee also died in the mishap which was so severe that the roof and the sides of one of the compartments mounted the road overbridge across the tracks in the station, 191 km from Kolkata, in Eastern Railway.

Sahay further said that "incidentally, Dey seemed to have even overlooked the speed restriction of 30 km per hour on a bridge just ahead of the station and was racing ahead." Prior to the accident, Dey had a conversation with the Railway Station staff at Rampurhat, which falls just ahead of Sainthia, and that showed that he was in absolute control of the train, ruling out the possibility of his being in inebriated condition, Sahay said.

"What is more surprising is that while the hand breaks stop the train within 350 meters, they had seen the Vananchal Express more than 500 meters ahead and still made no effort to stop the train. Their bodies were found on their respective chairs which means they did not even try to jump off the train to save their own lives," he added.

The Uttarbanga Express was headed to Sealdah when it crashed into the Vananchal Express.

The maximum casualties were in the two unreserved bogies of the Vananchal Express which was deeply impacted by the collision.

Union Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee has announced a compensation of 500,000 rupees (10,000 U.S. dollars) and employment to one member of each family of the dead.