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At least six people were killed and more than 45 injured when 12 coaches of the Bikaner-Guwahati Express derailed and some overturned near Domohani in West Bengal’s Jalpaiguri district on Thursday, an official said. The occurred around 5 p.m. in an area under the Alipurduar division of Northeast Frontier Railway, an NFR spokesperson said in Guwahati. « Six passengers have died so far. We recovered four bodies from the site while two people died in hospital, » Jalpaiguri District Magistrate Moumita Godara Basu said, adding at least 45 passengers were injured in the « Since some of them are in a critical condition, the death toll may go up, » she said, adding rescuers thoroughly searched each coach for survivors and bodies through darkness and thick fog. Commissioner, Railway Safety, will conduct an inquiry into the cause of the accident, a railway official said in New Delhi.
