At least 104 people were killed when 14 coaches of an
overnight passenger train rolled off the track in northern India early Sunday,
with rescue workers using cutting torches to try to pull out survivors, police
said. Time
Rescuers finished searching the wreckage Monday of a
train crash that killed at least 133 people in one of the deadliest such
incidents in India in years......
The Indore-Patna Express came off the tracks near the
northern industrial city of Kanpur soon after 3 a.m. local time Sunday, causing
14 coaches to derail.
Investigators will look into a possible fracture in the
tracks as a potential cause of the accident, the Indian Express reported. It
said the train was travelling at 68 mph when it crashed, and reported that the
carriages were outdated.
“There was a loud sound like an earthquake. I fell from
my berth and a lot of luggage fell over me,” Ramchandra Tewari, who suffered a
head injury, told the Associated Press from his hospital bed in Kanpur. “I
thought I was dead, and then I passed out.”
Rescuers worked through the night to pull people from the
twisted metal and overturned coaches near the village of Pukhrayan.
Local police Inspector General Zaki Ahmad confirmed the
death toll to the AP and said that about 226 people were injured, 76 of them
seriously.
Train accidents are relatively common on India, and are
mostly blamed on poor maintenance, outdated equipment and human error.
A 2012 government report said about 15,000 people are
killed in train accidents every year in India. The worst incident occurred in
1981, when a passenger train fell into the Baghmati River in the north of the
country, killing nearly 800 people.
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