Rescue teams worked on Sunday to free people trapped inside the train where some of the carriages stacked on top of each other in Uttar Pradesh state, 150km south of Lucknow city.
Initial reports told us that among the injured was the train driver, local residents rushed to the crash site to help the victims out of the derailed train carriages.
Train crash in India 2011
1000 people were boarded in the train and running at the speed of 108 kilometers an hour before it got derailed.
"At least 35 people are dead and 100 injured are being treated at the scene and in hospital," K.N. Joshi, the local district chief medical officer, told AFP. "I have seen a number of people still lying inside the coaches."
The Kalka Mail express train was travelling from Howrah, the main station for the eastern city of Kolkata, across India to the capital New Delhi when it left the tracks near Malwa station.
Railway officials said an investigation is still on going and that they could not point out yet the cause of the accident.
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