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2006 West Bengal train explosion

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Target
  
train

Perpetrators
  
unknown

Location
  
West Bengal

Attack type
  
Bomb

Non-fatal injuries
  
between 25 and 66

Date
  
20 November 2006

Total number of deaths
  
5

Location
  
West Bengal

Similar
  
Rafiganj train wreck, Kurnool train crash, 2007 Uttar Pradesh bombings, 2002 Kaluchak massacre, 2008 Assam bombings

The 2006 West Bengal train disaster was a fatal suspected terrorist explosion on a train travelling between New Jalpaiguri and Haldibari that occurred on 20 November 2006, when the train was in a remote part of West Bengal State, India. Five people were killed, and between fifty and twenty-five were injured, although home secretary Prasad Ranjan Ray says officials believe there may in fact be as many as sixty-six injured. Two passenger cars were damaged. The explosion was due to a still-undetermined cause, but terrorism is suspected. The train was about 550 kilometres (340 mi) from Kolkata.

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2006 West Bengal train explosion Wikipedia