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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.
