Dozens injured as train derails in northern India

Dozens of passengers were injured when a passenger train derailed in India's northern state of Uttar Pradesh on Sunday, officials said, according to dpa. Thirteen coaches of the Delhi-bound Howrah-Kalka train running at a speed of 108 kilometres per hour derailed in the southern Fatehpur district, Indian Railways spokesman Anil Saxena told reporters. Saxena confirmed that 30 passengers were injured in the derailment and authorities had begun rescue and relief operations at the scene 120 kilometres south-east of state capital Lucknow. But railway officials told television news channels that the number of injured was much higher, while also indicating there may have been some fatalities. "It's difficult to say how many people have died, but at least 100 people were injured, the number may be even more," Harish Chandra Joshi, chief of the North Central Railway told IBN-7 news network.