At least 31 people have been killed and more than 100 injured in a train derailment in northern India.
Thirteen coaches of the Kalka Mail passenger train left the rails near the town of Fatehpur in Uttar Pradesh.
Rescue workers and locals arrived to try to free trapped passengers from the badly damaged carriages.
The train was travelling from Howrah near Calcutta to the capital Delhi. There are fears that the death toll could rise.
Accidents are common on the state-owned Indian railway, an immense network connecting every corner of the vast country.
In India there also occurs major train incidents.It operates 9,000 passenger trains and carries some 18 million passengers every day. On Thursday, 38 people died in Uttar Pradesh when a train hit a bus carrying a wedding party.
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