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EPA On Sunday, rescue teams searched the twisted coaches of the Kalka Mail for victims and survivors.

Double Train Disaster 2011

Rajesh Kumar Singh/Associated Press Indian army personnel pulled out a body from the Kalka Mail train, which jumped the tracks near Fatehpur in Uttar Pradesh state.

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Authorities were investigating the cause of the Kalka Mail crash.

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The number of passengers on board the Kalka Mail – named for its past use in the postal service – was not known.

India Train Accident Leaves At Least 31 Dead, 100 Injured 2011

Rajesh Kumar Singh/Associated Press Indian rescue workers searched for bodies in the wreckage of the Kalka Mail.

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In the first crash, 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, senior railway official A.K. Jain said.

India Train Accident Leaves At Least 31 Dead, 100 Injured 2011

Sanjay Kanojia/Associated Press The train headed towards the northern Indian city of Kalka from Howrah, near Kolkata, and derailed near the town of Fatehpur in India's state of Uttar Pradesh, Sunday.

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The senior army official in charge of rescue operations at the accident site says volunteers and soldiers have pulled out 60 bodies from 12 coaches of the Kalka Mail, which went off the tracks Sunday afternoon.

India Train Accident Leaves At Least 31 Dead, 100 Injured 2011

Many trains were canceled from leaving the capital after the Kalka Mail passenger train derailed and crashed Sunday.

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Rajesh Kumar Singh/Associated Press A woman cried near the bodies of her mother and brother who died in the accident of the Kalka Mail, near Fatehpur.

Double Train Disaster 2011