India: Train Crash Kills at Least 40

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An express train plowed into a parked freight train in northern India on Monday, killing at least 40 people and reducing cars to heaps of torn and twisted metal, officials said. The Gorakhpur Express passenger train was traveling at high speed and slammed on its brakes in an attempt to stop but hit the train sitting on the tracks near a railway station in the state of Uttar Pradesh, a district official said. The Indian authorities said that it was too early to say what had gone wrong and that they were investigating every possibility, from mechanical failure to human error.