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Nine dead in Indian train fire: report

A fire on a train travelling from Mumbai to Dehradun has killed at least nine people, media reports say.

At least nine people have been killed in an Indian train fire, reports say, just a week after 26 were killed in a train inferno in southeast India.

The fire on Wednesday ripped through three coaches of a train travelling from Mumbai to the northern city of Dehradun, resulting in thick smoke inside the airtight compartments while passengers were asleep.

"Three coaches caught fire this morning. All the passengers have been evacuated. At this time we cannot speculate the reason for the fire," senior Indian railways official Sharat Chandryan told news channel CNN-IBN.


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