Photos: India train derailment kills almost 150
Indian rescue workers search for survivors in the wreckage of a train that derailed near Pukhrayan in Kanpur district on Nov. 20, 2016.
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At least 115 people were killed when an overnight passenger train rolled off the track in northern India early Sunday, with rescuers working into the night to pull people out of the mangled coaches, police said.
A crane lifts a train car Nov. 21, 2016, after a passenger train rolled off the track near Pukhrayan village in Kanpur, India.
(Rajesh Kumar Singh / AP)A relative tries to console a woman, right, who lost her brother as people wait for bodies of those killed in a train accident outside the mortuary of a hospital in Akbarpur, India, on Nov. 21, 2016.
(Rajesh Kumar Singh / AP)Rescuers work at the site of a train crash near in Kanpur, India, on Nov. 21, 2016.
(Rajesh Kumar Singh / AP)Workers search for bodies at the site of a train accident in Kanpur, India, on Nov. 21, 2016.
(Rajat Gupta / EPA)A rescue worker searches for survivors in the wreckage of a derailed train in Kanpur district on Nov. 20, 2016.
(Sanjay Kanojia / AFP/Getty Images)An interior view Nov. 21, 2016, of a damaged train car as rescue works continue at the site of an accident where a train derailed in Kanpur, India.
(Rajat Gupta / EPA)Rescue workers at the site of an accident where coaches of an Indore-Patna Express train derailed, near Pukhrayan, in Kanpur, India, on November 20, 2016.
(Rajat Gupta/ EPA)Rescue workers at the site of an accident where coaches of an Indore-Patna Express train derailed, near Pukhrayan, in Kanpur, India, on November 20, 2016.
(Rajat Gupta/ EPA)Rescuers search among the debris after 14 coaches of an overnight passenger train rolled off the track near Pukhrayan village Kanpur Dehat district, Uttar Pradesh state, India, Sunday, Nov. 20, 2016.
(Rajesh Kumar Singh / AP)An injured passenger walks after 14 coaches of an overnight passenger train rolled off the track near Pukhrayan village Kanpur Dehat district, Uttar Pradesh state, India, Sunday, Nov. 20, 2016.
(Rajesh Kumar Singh / AP)Rescuers work into the night after 14 coaches of an overnight passenger train rolled off the track near Pukhrayan village Kanpur Dehat district, Uttar Pradesh state, India, Sunday, Nov. 20, 2016.
(Rajesh Kumar Singh / AP)Rescuers pull out a body from the debris after 14 coaches of an overnight passenger train rolled off the track near Pukhrayan village Kanpur Dehat district, Uttar Pradesh state, India, Sunday, Nov. 20, 2016.
(Rajesh Kumar Singh / AP)Rescuers use machinery to lift debris after 14 coaches of an overnight passenger train rolled off the track near Pukhrayan village Kanpur Dehat district, Uttar Pradesh state, India, Sunday, Nov. 20, 2016.
(Rajesh Kumar Singh / AP)Indian rescue workers search for survivors in the wreckage of a train that derailed near Pukhrayan in Kanpur district on November 20, 2016.
(Sanjay Kanojia/ AFP/Getty Images)Indian rescue workers survey the wreckage of a train that derailed near Pukhrayan in Kanpur district on November 20, 2016.
(Sanjay Kanojia/ AFP/Getty Images)Indian rescue workers search for survivors in the wreckage of a train that derailed near Pukhrayan in Kanpur district on November 20, 2016.
(Sanjay Kanojia/ AFP/Getty Images)Indian rescue workers search for survivors in the wreckage of a train that derailed near Pukhrayan in Kanpur district on November 20, 2016.
(Sanjay Kanojia/ AFP/Getty Images)An injured Indian passenger is treated at a hospital in Kanpur on November 20, 2016 after a deadly train derailment.
(AFP/Getty Images)Onlookers and survivors gather next to wreckage of an Indian train that derailed near Pukhrayan in Kanpur district on November 20, 2016.
(AFP/Getty Images)Indian rescue workers search for survivors in the wreckage of a train that derailed near Pukhrayan in Kanpur district on November 20, 2016.
(Sanjay Kanojia/ AFP/Getty Images)Indian rescue workers search for survivors in the wreckage of a train that derailed near Pukhrayan in Kanpur district on November 20, 2016.
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