Passenger train jumps rails killing 31, more feared

LUCKNOW, India— Three compartments of a passenger train derailed in north India Friday, killing 31 people, and rescuers were using gas cutters to rip apart the mangled wreckage to search for trapped people. At least 50 were injured.

Ashwini Srivastava, a spokesman for the railways, said that rescue workers pulled out 31 bodies from the wreckage,.
The engine and two coaches of the Janata Express jumped off the tracks near Bachhrawan village in Uttar Pradesh state.
Several people were feared trapped in the wreckage, and rescue efforts were on to bring them out alive, said Ram Murath Yadav, a police official at the site of the accident.
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