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Bengal: Five killed, 2 critically injured after train rams school van at Murshidabad level crossing

Kolkata, Jul 17 (UNI) Five persons including four school students and a local resident, were killed and two others critically injured after a local train hit a school van and a bicycle at a level-crossing gate near Karnasubarna station in Murshidabad district today morning.
Two critically injured in the accident were rushed to the hospital.
The incident occurred at a distance of about 48km from Katwa when the local train 53054 Nimtita–Katwa Passenger hit the school van carrying students to a private school at around 6.41 am. An elderly local resident on a bicycle was also killed after the local train collided with his vehicle at level-crossing gate number 24A/2 in the Katwa–Azimganj section of the Howrah Division under Eastern Railway.
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