20 feared dead in train accident in India

At least 20 people are feared dead after a passenger train derailed and hit a stationary goods train in India's Uttar Pradesh state, officials say. Six coaches of the Gorakhdham Express went off the rails and ploughed into the freight train at Chureb railway station on Monday morning. Rescuers are searching through the mangled coaches, with reports saying a number of people are trapped. The train was travelling from Gorakhpur town to Hisar in Haryana state. "A medical train with doctors and paramedics has reached the site of the crash," railway spokesman in Delhi Anil Saxena told the BBC. "We've also sent machines to cut the coaches to reach the passengers who are still trapped." India's railway network operates 9,000 passenger trains and carries some 18 million passengers every day, according to BBC.