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Rafiganj train crash | |
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Date | 10 September 2002 22:40 |
Location | Rafiganj, Bihar, India |
Coordinates | 24°49′54″N 84°30′42″E / 24.8317°N 84.5117°E |
Incident type | Deliberate derailment of train |
Statistics | |
Deaths | 130–200 |
Injured | 150+ |
The Rafiganj rail disaster was the derailment of a train on a bridge over the Dhave River in North-Central India, on 10 September 2002. At least 130 people were killed in the crash, which was attributed in some reports to sabotage by a local Maoist terrorist group, the Naxalites.