Rescue workers rushed to the scene near Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh state where the Patna-Indore express train derailed in the early hours of the morning.
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A man walks past the wreckage. The death toll from the train crash has risen to over 100. AFP Photo -
Witnesses spoke of being woken up by a huge bang and being thrown around. “We woke up to a great thud this morning. It was pitch dark and the noise was deafening,” a passenger told reporters as he waited with his family at the accident site. Ritesh Shukla / EPA -
All local hospitals had been placed on alert and around 30 ambulances had been deployed to transport the injured. ANI /via Reuters -
Suresh Prabhu, India’s railways minister, said in a tweet that the government would investigate what caused the derailment and promised the strictest possible action against those found guilty. EPA -
A view of a derailed train in Kanpur. ANI /via Reuters -
“A lot of teams are currently there including local police, doctors and members of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF). The rescue operations are on,” said Daljit Singh Chawdhary, additional police director general of Uttar Pradesh state. ANI /via Reuters
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