Search for survivors ends as death toll from train accident exceeds 300

With rescue work finished, authorities began clearing the mangled wreckage of two passenger trains that derailed in eastern India, killing more than 300 people and injuring hundreds (Rafiq Maqbool/AP)

With rescue work finished, authorities began clearing the mangled wreckage of two passenger trains that derailed in eastern India, killing more than 300 people and injuring hundreds.

On Sunday officials said the accident the country’s deadliest rail accident in decades.