Train derails

 Employees of the railroad began clearing the scene of the accident derailed a passenger train "Kalka Mail" in northern India after the rescue operation, during which they found sixty-eight tel. At least 239 passengers were injured when a train derailed near the station in Fatehpur Uttar Pradesh. This accident occurred July 11, 2001 and became one of the worst rail disasters which have occurred in the network's already troubled country's railways in recent years.

 The accident occurred Sunday in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.The train suddenly stopped and about a dozen cars were derailed, destroying each other. Rescue teams and officers from the armed forces of more than twenty-four hours was carried out the rescue operation to locate and retrieve the dead and wounded from the wreckage. In the photograph: a passenger trapped in the wreckage, found an Indian army officer, and will now be safely evacuated.

 Throughout the day, anxious relatives conducted a search of the missing family members. They all flocked to the site where the bodies were wrapped in white shrouds, laid in rows on the ground next to the wrecked train. In the photograph: four decades Rani Verma mourns the loss of her father in a train accident, while outside the state morgue in Fatehpur.

 Two Swedish nationals were among those killed. Another Swede was injured. In the photograph: the wounded Swede gets help Indian army soldier.

 "I listened to music on the top shelf, when there was a loud explosion and then a terrible blow. I jumped up from his seat and hit his head," said one of the passengers, twenty Subayit Ghosh, received a head injury.

 Authorities are investigating the causes of the accident, said a senior official of the railway department. According to information released by a number of newspapers, the driver slammed on the brakes because it was on rails cattle.

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 Volunteers and soldiers are the Army worked all night to get the wounded out of the twelve cars destroyed. Officials said the train were about one thousand passengers, but the exact number was not known. In the photograph: Indian Army soldiers pulled bodies of the victims from the wreckage of a passenger train.

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 The train "Kalka Mail" heading in the foothills of the Himalayas, from Hauri, station near Calcutta in eastern India. In the photograph: the dead body lying next to the train derailed at a station near Malvan Fatehpur.

 Railway communication across India breached. At least sixty two trains were directed to other routes at that time, many flights were canceled. In the photo: Passengers crowd into a crowded train, next to the eastern state of Bihar, from New Delhi.