The 2006 West Bengal

West Bengal

West Bengal is a state in the eastern region of India and is the nation's fourth-most populous. It is also the seventh-most populous sub-national entity in the world, with over 91 million inhabitants. A major agricultural producer, West Bengal is the sixth-largest contributor to India's GDP...

 train disaster was a fatal suspected terrorist explosion on a train travelling between New Jalpaiguri

New Jalpaiguri

New Jalpaiguri is a major railway station of the city of Siliguri in the Indian state of West Bengal. The station is popularly known by its acronym NJP...

 and Haldibari

Haldibari

Haldibari is a town and a municipality in Koch Bihar district in the Indian state of West Bengal.-Geography:Haldibari is located at . It has an average elevation of 57 metres .Haldibari is a town located near India-Bangladesh border....

 that occurred on November 20, 2006, when the train was in a remote part of West Bengal State, India

India

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. Five people were killed, and between fifty and twenty-five were injured, although home secretary

Home Secretary

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 Prasad Ranjan Ray says officials believe there may in fact be as many as sixty-six injured. Two passenger cars were damaged. The explosion is still due to an undetermined cause, but terrorism is suspected. The train was about 550 kilometres (341.8 mi) from Kolkata

Kolkata

Kolkata , formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, it was the commercial capital of East India...

.