60 People Dead in Fire in India-Pakistan Train

About 60 passengers probably burned to death after suspected blasts aboard a train bound from India to Pakistan.

"It appears to be a case of sabotage," B.N. Mathur, a top railway official, told reporters. "We have found two suitcases, there were IEDs in them," he said referring to improvised explosive devices.

About 50 passengers were also reported wounded.

The coaches of the Samjhauta Express train, which connects New Delhi to the northern Pakistani city of Lahore, erupted in fire near Panipat town, about 80 km (50 miles) north of the Indian capital, around midnight on Sunday (1830 GMT).

The incident comes days before Pakistani Foreign Minister Khursheed Mehmood Kasuri is due in New Delhi for talks with Indian leaders to push forward a slow-moving peace process between the old rivals.