At least 15 killed in crash

A disaster: Onlookers watching as rescuers work after a freight train rammed into Kanchanjunga Express, a passenger train, in West Bengal. — AP

A freight train smashed into the rear of a stationary passenger train in India’s West Bengal state, killing at least 15 people and injuring dozens, police said, in an accident that railway authorities blamed on a disregarded signal.

Media showed images of the pile-up, with containers from the goods train strewn nearby, and one carriage left nearly vertical after yesterday’s accident, which comes just over a year after a signalling error caused one of India’s worst rail crashes.