The accident, which took place as the Kalka Mail was nearing the Malwan railway station in Fatehpur district, toppled some of the coaches over two adjoining rail tracks, sealing off the busy route to Howrah from where the train was coming.
Meawhile, a second tragedy struck hundreds of miles away in the evening, when a blast derailed eight coaches of the Guwahati-Puri Express near Rangia, 50km from Guwahati, and injured about 70 passengers.
Several women and children were killed in the 12.20pm Kalka accident, where five AC coaches were among those derailed, and scores of people still lay trapped in two bogies late in the night. Most of the deaths are suspected to have been caused by suffocation in the coaches where the victims lay buried under luggage or fellow passengers.
The 24-bogie Kalka, Bengal's fourth-most important train after Rajdhani, Duronto and Poorva, had left with 1,331 passengers last evening. Its average speed is 63kmph but when the accident happened, it was travelling at 108kmph "which is full speed", North Central Railway general manager H.C. Joshi said.
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