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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