Template:Coord Template:Infobox terrorist attack Template:Terrorist attacks in India (since 2001) The 2006 West Bengal train disaster was a fatal suspected terrorist explosion on a train travelling between New Jalpaiguri and Haldibari that occurred on 20 November 2006, when the train was in a remote part of West Bengal State, India. Five people were killed, and between fifty and twenty-five were injured, although home secretary Prasad Ranjan Ray says officials believe there may in fact be as many as sixty-six injured. Two passenger cars were damaged. The explosion was due to a still-undetermined cause, but terrorism is suspected. The train was about Template:Convert from Kolkata.
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- ↑ Train blast kills 5 on eastern India. CNN(20 November 2006).