India train derailment kills at least 50

It was not immediately clear what caused the crash or how many people were traveling on the train, Ahmed said.

Chief Medical Officer Kanpur Ramayan Prasad said 105 bodies have been handed over to family members after postmortem and free ambulances were provided.

“We are using every tactic to save lives but it’s very hard to cut the metal carriages”, senior railway official Pratap Rai told Reuters.

The cause of the derailment is unknown.

India’s creaking railway system is the world’s fourth largest.

It occurred near Kanpur city, a major railway junction and a key link in India’s rail network for connecting the eastern and western parts of the country.

Fighting back tears, the 26-year-old business student recalled how he waited over three hours to be cut out of the mangled train carriage, which was crushed under another by the violence of the crash.

Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu also announced an ex-gratia of Rs. 3.5 lakh for the families of the deceased and Rs. 50,000 for those critically injured in Patna-Indore Express derailment incident.

“Whoever I tried to look for is dead”, Nirmal Verma told PTI.

An estimated 2,000 people were on board the intercity express train when it came off the tracks around 3 am on Sunday, violently jolting passengers out of their sleep.

At least 30 people have been killed in a train crash in northern India, after 14 carriages of the passenger train derailed. One carriage was nearly lying on its side and appeared to have been completely torn apart.

Indian rescue workers search for survivors in the wreckage of a train that derailed near Pukhrayan in Kanpur district on 20 November 2016. “My brother was injured in the face”, Pippal said, adding that, after a few minutes of panic, the two managed to crawl up to the exit gate and get out. “He may have changed his seat. we have searched everywhere”, said Ramanand Tiwari.

“I had never seen anything like this in my life before”. Night vision camera developed by the railways to help loco pilots, a new faster and lighter mode of transportation called Caterpillar train, water vending machines, food box to keep food hot at rail premises, green initiatives like harnessing solar and wind energy were among those exhibited at the gallery.

The State Police Director General, Javeed Ahmad, announced to the press he death toll and casualties. More than 90 percent of the railways’ revenues are spent on operational costs, leaving next to nothing for modernisation.

He has also shied away from raising highly subsidized fares that leave the railways with next to nothing for investment – by some analyst estimates, they need 20 trillion rupees ($293.34 billion) of investment by 2020.

Prime minister Narendra Modihas expressed his condolences over the death of almost 63 persons in the train accident in UP.