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A view of a
derailed train in Kanpur, in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh, in this
still image taken from video November 20, 2016. ANI/via REUTERS TV
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By Rupam Jain | Indians
At least 60
people were killed and 80 injured when several carriages of an Indian train
derailed in northern Uttar Pradesh, the nation’s most populous state, in the
early hours of Sunday, senior railway officials said.
Fourteen carriages
of the train, traveling between the northeastern city of patna and the central
city of Indore, were thrown off track in Pukhrayan, 65 kilometers south of
Kanpur city, according to railway officials.
“Still many more
passengers are trapped,” Anil Saxena, a senior railway official in New Delhi
told Reuters.
Two senior police
officials in Kanpur said their teams have been able to pull out 60 bodies from
the badly damaged carriages.
Suresh Prabhu,
India’s Railways Minister, said in a tweet the government would immediately
investigate the causes of the derailment and promised accountability with the “strictest
possible action.”
India’s creaking
railway system is the world’s fourth largest, ferrying more than 20 million
people each day, but it has a poor safety record, with thousands of people
dying in accidents every year.
The nation
suffers frequent train derailments, sometimes with tragic consequences,
including another train accident in Uttar Pradesh in March last year that
killed 39 people and injured 150.
Prime Minister
Narendra Modi took to Twitter to express his condolences.
“Anguished beyond
words on the loss of lives due to the derailing of the Patna-Indore express. My
thoughts are with the bereaved families,” Modi said.
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