India train crash kills 111

NAVAL boats scoured for bodies today as rescuers gave up on finding new survivors from a train that plunged into a rain-swollen river in southern India, killing at least 111 people, officials said.

The accident occurred early on Saturday in the town of Veligonda in Andhra Pradesh state after flash floods washed away a portion of the track.

By this afternoon, rescuers had pulled out all survivors and dead bodies trapped in seven cars that derailed along with the train’s engine, said J P Batra, chairman of the railway board.