Patna: At least 12 people were injured when a passenger train collided with a goods train in Bihar's Motihari district early on Saturday morning, the second accident within 24 hours.

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The Gorakhpur-Muzaffarpur passenger train collided with the engine of a goods train standing at Sugauli railway station near Motihari. "All the injured have been admitted in a local government hospital for treatment," the official said.

He said the accident took place when the passenger train driver overshot a red signal. Fifteen people were killed and 140 injured when the Howrah-Chennai Coromandel Express derailed in Orissa.

Cries for help pierce silence of night

Lalu Prasad, while presenting the interim railway budget for 2009-10 in parliament on Friday had pointed to the railway's safety record.

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