31 killed as train derails

RESCUERS searched through the wreckage of a packed express train for people trapped inside after it derailed in northern India yesterday, killing at least 31 people and injuring 100 others, officials said.

The Kalka Mail train was on its way to Kalka, in the foothills of the Himalayas, from Howrah, a station near Kolkata in eastern India, when 12 coaches and the engine jumped the tracks at Malwan station, near the town of Fatehpur in Uttar Pradesh state, a senior railway official said.