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To: Mohan Marette who wrote (5443)	8/4/1999 11:32:00 AM
From: Mohan Marette	Respond to of 12475

India rail crash death toll nears 300 The death toll from the tragic rail collision in eastern India neared 300 on Wednesday as the search through tangled wreckage went into its third day. As the last decomposing bodies were cut away from the jumble of engines and carriages in a remote corner of West Bengal state, attention switched to who or what was responsible for the country's most serious rail accident since 1995. On Tuesday, Railway Minister Nitish Kumar resigned to take moral responsibility for the disaster, and spoke of "criminal negligence" by railway staff. But commentators shrugged off Kumar's move and pointed to Indian Railways' management for failing to put right a record of some 300 accidents a year, about two-thirds of which are due to staff negligence. "...the possibility of the ministerial gesture moving the railways into a higher safety gear is not over bright," The Statesman newspaper said in an editorial. "Indian Railways may just shrug and carry on, leaving passengers weighing the probabilities of reaching destination or death." The Awadh-Assam Express, heading for the tea and oil-rich northeastern state of Assam, and the Delhi-bound Brahmaputra Mail collided head-on early on Monday..... itn.co.uk