Alwaght- At least a hundred people lost their lives as a passenger train got off the rails in northern Indian state.
The accident happened in the Uttar Pradesh state where another 150 people also were injured during the accident.
The tragedy happened in the early hours of Sunday when most passengers were sleeping. 14 coaches of the Patna-Indore express train came off the track near Pukhrayan area in Kanpur Dehat district, according to railway officials.
The train was running from Patna, the capital of the eastern state of Bihar to Indore, a city in the west-central state of Madhya Pradesh.
The death toll is expected to rise as officials say many passengers are still trapped inside the carriages, with police and emergency crew working to pull the victims from the twisted wreckage.
The injured were transported to local hospitals and the stranded passengers taken to a nearby station from where a special train would eventually take them to Patna.
About 23 million passengers use India's vast rail network every day, which is the fourth largest in the world.
Train accidents are common in the country, where much of the railway equipment is obsolete. Last year, a train derailment, also in Uttar Pradesh, left some 40 people dead and 150 others injured.
