Word: kharagpur
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dawn, in the sweltering, smoky railway center of Kharagpur, near Calcutta, a locomotive chugged to a stop outside the station to discharge workers. Suddenly, a mob of 200 railroad strikers was upon it. Beating the driver and fireman to a pulp with stones, they tossed their bodies aside. Then they opened the throttle and sent the locomotive careering down the tracks into the station. It smashed into a crowd of 100 workers, throwing bodies in every direction and injuring 60 people...
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