Train crash toll rises in India
PUKHRAYAN, India — Rescuers worked through the night to pull people out of mangled coaches after a passenger train derailed early Sunday in northern India, as the death toll rose to at least 115 people, police said.
The toll is expected to rise further because rescue workers had yet to gain access to one of the worst-damaged of the 14 coaches that derailed, said Daljeet Chaudhary, a director general of police.
The train derailed at 3:10 a.m., jolting awake passengers.
Accidents are relatively common on India’s sprawling rail network, which is the world’s third largest but lacks modern signaling and communication systems.
Javeed Ahmad, the police chief of Uttar Pradesh state, where the derailment took place, said 115 bodies had been recovered from the wreckage.