The death toll in India train crash has risen to 138 people (updated)

As a result, train crash in India, according to recent data, 138 people died.
Reported on Saturday the British Broadcasting Corporation BBC.
According to representatives of the authorities of West Bengal, where the tragedy occurred, these figures are not final, because rescuers are still working in the wreckage of the passenger express train.

Injuries in the accident were at least 200 people. Many of them were now delivered in health facilities spetspoezdom Mumbai.

The police are searching the Maoist rebels who had organized attack on the railway. According to the police in remote areas of West Bengal hiding at least 150 extremists.

The Ministry of Railway said that last night in several Indian states will stop the movement of passenger trains in connection with the threat of new acts of sabotage by the Maoists, declared May 28 the start of Black Week. They demand the authorities to stop operations to dismantle their militias.
Recall responsibility for the catastrophe that has occurred in West Bengal on Friday, claimed the Maoist rebel group.
A passenger train en route from Calcutta to Mumbai derailed, after which it crashed into freight train, coming in the opposite direction.
It is reported that a train collision happened about 150 km west of Calcutta.
Some cars turned into a pile of warped metal.
Shortly after the accident the chief of police of West Bengal Bhupinder Singh also said that the crash was "an act of sabotage", implemented by the Maoist insurgency: the train derailed because of the damage the railway track.
Maoists declaredThat from May 28 to five Indian states - including West Bengal - will black Week.
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In recent months maosty, which called Naxalites in India, conducted a series of high-profile terrorist attacks. His aim Maoists declared a "liberation of the Indian rural poor from the oppression of the capitalists."
Maoist rebels are hiding in forests in the east, north and center of India, where attacks on villages, which in their view, refusing to "support the just struggle," and attacked government officials and law enforcement officials.
Some remote areas of the country is under the control of militants who have announced their intention to create a "red corridor from Nepal to South India. The Indian government considers the Maoists as a major threat to national security.

Adapted from:

Interfax-Ukraine,

BBC,

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