At least 35 people were killed and over 200 injured on Sunday when 14 coaches of the Kalka-bound Kalka Mail ran off the rails in Uttar Pradesh, leaving many passengers trapped in the mangled mess. Villagers and rescue workers frantically tried to cut open overturned coaches and free people trapped in them even hours after the disaster at Malwan in Fatehpur district, some 150 km from Lucknow. Seven of the coaches were capsized and badly mangled, including the pantry car and the airconditioned coaches, officials said. This is the second accident involving a train in three days. Thirty-eight people were killed in Kanshiram Nagar, also in Uttar Pradesh, on Thursday when the Chhapra-Mathura Express rammed into a bus at an unmanned railway crossing. The reason for the latest accident was not immediately known. The derailment happened as the train, running at over 100 km per hour, was approaching the Malwan railway station shortly after noon and the driver reportedly applied emergency brakes.
Some coaches of the Guwahati-Puri Express derailed at Nalbari district in western Assam on Sunday. The accident occurred near Ghograpar at around 8.30 pm as the train was on its way to Puri. Police and railway teams were rushing to the spot. Police and railway officials said they were not sure whether the derailment was caused by a blast or sabotage by militants or a technical fault. Local villagers, however, claimed to have heard a loud explosion before the accident.
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