Is there any difference between past tense and reported speech?
I am confused about uses of tenses in the Newspaper especially about past events.
Sometimes reporters use simple past to tell two events, for example:
"He boarded the train at xyz station and after 10 min robbers entered in the coach."
And sometime he uses past perfect tense, for example:
"He had boarded the train at xyz station and after 10 min robbers entered in the coach."
Also from below sentences which sentence is use and when in past events?
(A) Police said that he robbed the victim.
(B) Police said that he had robbed the victim.