The death toll rose to 80 as workers sifted through the wreckage in Northern India on Monday. At least 350 more were injured in the accident, one of the worst rail disasters to hit the country in years.
The accident occurred on Sunday in Uttar Pradesh state after the New Delhi-bound Kalka Mail suddenly stopped, derailing over a dozen carriages that piled on top of one another.
It was one of the most serious cases of rail accidents in India, said Sandeep Mathur, chief public relation officer of North Central Railways, who added an inquiry would be launched.
Rescue teams have struggled over the past twenty-four hours to locate and remove bodies from the rubble.
Here's a look at the latest photos of the horrible accident:
Rescue workers help to move a carriage, lifted by crane, from a passenger train which derailed near Fatehpur, about 80 km (50 miles) southwest of Kanpur city, located in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh July 11, 2011. The death toll in a train accident in Uttar Pradesh climbed to 80 on Monday with more than 350 injured in one of the worst rail disasters to hit the country's troubled rail network in years.REUTERSRescue workers enter a destroyed carriage of a passenger train which derailed near Fatehpur, about 80 km (50 miles) southwest of Kanpur city, located in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh July 11, 2011. The death toll in a train accident in Uttar Pradesh climbed to 80 on Monday with more than 350 injured in one of the worst rail disasters to hit the country's troubled rail network in years.REUTERSRescue workers pull the body of a victim from a passenger train which derailed near Fatehpur, about 80 km (50 miles) southwest of Kanpur city in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh July 11, 2011. The death toll in a train accident in Uttar Pradesh climbed to 80 on Monday with more than 350 injured in one of the worst rail disasters to hit the country's troubled rail network in years.REUTERSRescue workers carry the body of a victim after a passenger train derailed near Fatehpur, about 80 km (50 miles) southwest of Kanpur city in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh July 11, 2011. The death toll in a train accident in Uttar Pradesh climbed to 80 on Monday with more than 350 injured in one of the worst rail disasters to hit the country's troubled rail network in years.REUTERSTrains kill 15000 people in India every year. REUTERSPeople watch as rescue personnel search for survivors through the mangled carriages of a train which derailed near Fatehpur, about 80km (50 miles) southwest of Kanpur in the state of Uttar Pradesh, July 10, 2011. At least nine people were killed and more than 150 injured in northern India when nearly a dozen coaches of a passenger train got derailed, officials said on Sunday.REUTERS
