Kanpur train derailment: 143 dead, search for survivors called off

After an overnight effort by by personnel of the army, police and the National Disaster Management Force, the rescuers have finally given up on finding survivors under the crushed coaches of the Indore-Patna Express, which got derailed near Kanpur on Sunday morning at around 3 am, killing 143 passengers.

Most of the passengers were jolted out of their sleep by a loud bang, following by violent rattling as the coaches leapt from the tracks and smashed up against each other. Fourteen coaches were thrown off track at Pukhrayan in the worst accident in recent times for the Indian railways.

One of the coaches was flattened and trapped under another coach.