Last bodies cut from train wreck

Guwahati - The last bodies were being cut from the wreckage of one of India's worst railway disasters yesterday, as details emerged…

Guwahati - The last bodies were being cut from the wreckage of one of India's worst railway disasters yesterday, as details emerged of the human errors that led two trains to collide headon, killing about 300 people.

More than 60 hours after the two express trains collided at high speed on a remote stretch of track in eastern India, the chief area manager of the Northern Frontier Railway, Mr Robin Kalita, put the death toll at 282.