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Train horror crash: 116 dead and 150 injured as carriages hurled off track
MORE than 100 people have been killed with more feared dead after 14 carriages of a train derailed in one of the worst disasters of its kind
More than 150 people are believed to have been injured in the derailment, which happened early on Sunday morning, with many still trapped in the wreckage.
Fourteen carriages of the train derailed near the town of Pukhrayan, according to officials.
Cops rushed to the scene along with ambulances as the emergency workers pulled bodies out from the twisted carriages.
A senior railway official said: "Still many more passengers are trapped.”