Three, including 2 students, killed after train hits school van in Bengal

Two children and a man were killed after a train collided with a school van at a railway level crossing in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district on Friday morning, a railway official was quoted as saying by ANI.

The accident took place around 7 am near Karna Subarna railway station. The level crossing had been closed for an express train and was reopened after it passed, even though the Nimtita-Katwa local train was scheduled to pass shortly afterwards, The Indian Express quoted an unidentified police officer as saying.

The van driver and a man on a bicycle attempted to cross the tracks. The passenger train then struck the van.