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    15 train robbers killed by poison gas

    GUWAHATI, India
    Mon Sep 22, 2008 11:30pm EDT

    GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - At least 15 Indian train robbers looking to steal diesel from a freight carriage died Saturday after inhaling poison gas stored in another tank they accidentally broke open, police said.

    Oddly Enough

    A police patrol party said they found 30 other people lying unconscious on both sides of a forested train track in India's Assam state.

    "We found many empty drums which they must have brought with them to fill with oil," a local police officer said by phone.

    The train was earlier stopped by dozens of armed people who police believe were members of a gang which frequently steals crude oil from trains and pipelines carrying oil to refineries in the oil-rich state.

    (Reporting by Biswajyoti Das; Editing by Bappa Majumdar)
    Oddly Enough


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