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| Indian police arrest Maoist leader over fatal train crash | ||
| 2010-06-21 | ||
Indian police on Sunday arrested a Maoist rebel leader accused for derailing a passenger train and causing a crash that killed 151 people in the eastern state of West Bengal last month.
"We are looking for two more suspects in connection with the incident," senior police inspector Surojit Kar Purokayastha told AFP in Kolkata. The exact cause of the crash remains uncertain but police have blamed the Maoist saboteurs for derailing the high-speed passenger train that collided with an oncoming goods train. The rebels say they are fighting for the rights of landless tribal groups and farmers left behind by India's rapid economic expansion. A government offensive was launched last year to tackle the insurgency, but since then the Maoists have launched a series of bold counter-attacks. | ||
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