2006 West Bengal train explosion

Explosion on passenger train, West Bengal

22°34′08″N 88°22′08″E / 22.569°N 88.369°E / 22.569; 88.369

2006 West Bengal train disaster
Location	West Bengal, India
Date	20 November 2006 6:10 – 6:10 (GMT)
Target	train
Attack type	bomb
Deaths	5
Injured	between 25 and 66
Perpetrators	unknown

v t e Terrorist attacks in India (since 2001)
List of terrorist incidents in India Attacks with 50+ deaths in italics
2001	Indian Parliament 1st Srinagar
2002	Raghunath (Mar) Akshardam Kolkata Jammu and Kashmir 2nd Jammu & Kashmir Rafiganj Raghunath (Nov) 1st Mumbai Kurnool
2003	2nd Mumbai 3rd Mumbai 4th Mumbai 5th Mumbai
2005	Ayodhya Jaunpur Begumpet 1st Delhi 1st Bangalore
2006	Ahmedabad 1st Varanasi 2nd Delhi Doda 6th Mumbai Malegaon W Bengal Kakopathar 2nd Srinagar
2007	Samjhauta Express 1st Hyderabad (May) 2nd Hyderabad (Aug) Ajmer Uttar Pradesh
2008	Jaipur 2nd Bangalore Ahmedabad 3rd Delhi (13 Sep) 4th Delhi (27 Sep) Malegaon Agartala Imphal 1st Assam 7th Mumbai
2009	Guwahati 2nd Assam Bhimajuli
2010	3rd Bangalore Pune 1st Dantewada (Apr) 2nd Dantewada (May) Jnaneswari 5th Delhi 2nd Varanasi
2011	8th Mumbai 6th Delhi
2012	7th Delhi Pune
2013	Hyderabad 3rd Srinagar (Mar) 4th Bangalore 1st Sukma 4th Srinagar (Jun) Bodh Gaya Patna
2014	Chennai 3rd Assam 2nd Sukma Burdwan Kashmir Valley 4th Assam 5th Bangalore
2015	Gurdaspur Manipur
2016	Pathankot Pampore Uri Nagrota
2017	Shajapur 3rd Sukma Amarnath Yatra
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2019	Pulwama Gadchiroli
2021	Sukma-Bijapur
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2024	Reasi

The 2006 West Bengal train disaster was a fatal suspected terrorist explosion on a train travelling between New Jalpaiguri and Haldibari on 20 November 2006, when the train was in a remote part of West Bengal, India. Five people were killed, and between 25 and 50 were injured, although home secretary Prasad Ranjan Ray said officials believed there might be as many as 66 injured. Two passenger cars were damaged. The explosion was due to a still-undetermined cause, but terrorism was suspected. The train was about 550 kilometres (340 mi) from Kolkata.

References

"Train blast kills 5 on eastern India". CNN. 20 November 2006. Retrieved 23 November 2006.

v t e Railway accidents and incidents in 2006 (2006)
Jan 23 Bioče derailment, Montenegro Mar 7 Varanasi bombings, India Jun 3 Ngungumbane train collision, Zimbabwe Jul 3 Valencia Metro derailment, Spain Jul 11 Mumbai train bombings, India Aug 21 Qalyoub train collision, Egypt Sep 22 Lathen train collision, Germany Oct 11 Zoufftgen train collision, France Oct 17 Rome Metro crash, Italy Nov 13 Faure level crossing crash, South Africa Nov 20 West Bengal train explosion, India
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Railway accidents and incidents in 2006 (2006)

Jan 23 Bioče derailment, Montenegro
Mar 7 Varanasi bombings, India
Jun 3 Ngungumbane train collision, Zimbabwe
Jul 3 Valencia Metro derailment, Spain
Jul 11 Mumbai train bombings, India
Aug 21 Qalyoub train collision, Egypt
Sep 22 Lathen train collision, Germany
Oct 11 Zoufftgen train collision, France
Oct 17 Rome Metro crash, Italy
Nov 13 Faure level crossing crash, South Africa
Nov 20 West Bengal train explosion, India

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