NEW DELHI: Emergency crews searched mangled carriages Sunday for any further victims after a train crash in northern India killed 23 passengers, the fourth major accident this year on the crumbling network. Another 156 people were injured when 14 carriages came off the tracks in Muzaffarnagar district in Uttar Pradesh state, 130 kilometers (80 miles) from New Delhi, on Saturday evening. Some of the injured were seriously hurt but many had been released from hospital after receiving treatment, Dev added. Singh, told the Press Trust of India there was “routine work” underway but would not elaborate given the pending investigation. This latest derailment is the fourth major crash this year, and follows another accident in Uttar Pradesh last November that left 146 dead.

Source: Manila Times August 20, 2017 11:37 UTC