At least 19 people were killed and more than 100 injured, after a train derailed in western India on Sunday.
The engine and four coaches went off the tracks near Roha station, 70 miles south of Mumbai in the Indian state of Maharashtra, police officer Ankush Shinde said.
Rescuers used gas cutters to open the derailed coaches and reach those trapped inside; cranes were employed to remove these coaches from the rail track.
Two of the derailed coaches tilted to one side and one overturned, said a railway spokesman Anil Kumar Saxena.
According to the police, the rescue operation is still in process the death toll is expected to rise.
Saxena said that 123 seriously injured passengers had been taken to hospital.
The cause of the derailment was not immediately known. “Railway authorities have ordered an investigation,” Saxena said.
Trains travelling through the area were suspended as the derailed coaches and the rescue operation blocked an adjacent track as well.
Train accidents are common in India, which has one of the world’s largest train networks and serves 20 million passengers a day.
Most accidents are thrust on poor maintenance and human error.
Earlier this year in March, an 18-year-old student was killed and nine people were injured when six coaches of a train broke off from the rest of the vehicle in a train accident in India’s Mumbai.
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