India train crash in pictures
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The accident involving the Indore-Patna Express took place just after 03:00 local time on Sunday (21:30 GMT Saturday) near the city of Kanpur in northern India.
Fourteen carriages of the express train came off the tracks, killing about 100 people and injuring another 150, according to police.
"We woke up to a great thud this morning. It was pitch dark and the noise was deafening," one survivor told reporters.
India's railway minister is on his way to the crash site. It is unclear what caused the train to jump the tracks and an investigation has been ordered.
Krishna Keshav, who was travelling on the train, told the BBC he saw several bodies.
Daljeet Chaudhary, a director general of police, said the death toll was likely to rise as rescue workers were yet to gain access to some of the most badly damaged coaches.
Rescuers used gas cutters to try to free the people trapped in three of the carriages, which had crumpled with the force.
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