Dozens killed as train derails near India's Kanpur

At least 90 people were killed and more than 100 injured when a train derailed in northern Uttar Pradesh, India's biggest state, police said.
The train was travelling between the northeastern city of Patna and the central city of Indore on Sunday when the incident happened, throwing several carriages off the track, according to railway officials.

"As we know a major accident has happened in which the entire train turned turtle. The death toll has unfortunately increased and it is 91 now," Daljit Singh Chawdhary, the additional police director general of Uttar Pradesh state, told AFP news agency. 
"A lot of teams are currently there including local police, doctors and members of the National Disaster Response Force. The rescue operations are on."
All local hospitals had been placed on alert and around 30 ambulances had been deployed to transport the injured.
India's Home Minister  Rajnath Singh said the Patna-Indore Express train had derailed near Kanpur, in northern India and that the National Disaster Response Force was overseeing the rescue efforts.
"Dozens of passengers were injured in the derailment. We don't know what led to the disaster," said a senior railway official R K Chandra in Kanpur.