Kanpur train accident was conspiracy from across border: PM in UP
February 24, 2017  16:51
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A conspiracy hatched from "across the border' was responsible for a train derailment last November near Kanpur that killed 148 people, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday.


"A rail accident happened in Kanpur, few people have been caught, police found out, that was a conspiracy from across the border,' news agency ANI quoted Modi as saying at a poll rally in Uttar Pradesh's Gonda. Uttar Pradesh is voting in seven-phase assembly elections where the BJP is competing with a Samajwadi Party-Congress alliance and the Bahujan Samaj Party.

Modis comment comes days after a Nepalese citizen, Samshul Hoda, was arrested in Kathmandu. Hoda is suspected of having links with Pakistans Inter-Services Intelligence and gangster Dawood Ibrahim and is a key accused in the Kanpur train derailment case.

Samshul Hoda, 43, from Bara district of Nepal, was detained along with four others who were described as agents of Pakistans Inter-Services Intelligence agency. They were operating a ring from Pakistan, Malaysia and the UAE, Nepalese officials said.

The Indore-Patna Express went off the tracks near Kanpur Dehat in Pukhrayan on November 21, killing 148 and injuring more than 200 the worst train accident in six years.
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