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/ 14 December 2004

‘People were shrieking, trapped inside coaches’

At least 38 people died on Tuesday when two trains collided in northern India, officials said, revising downwards a previous death toll of 50. Rescue workers used gas-powered cutters to reach passengers trapped inside in the trains, and authorities appealed to villagers to donate blood. At least four carriages were badly damaged in the collision.