Rescuers pull out bodies from derailed train in India

Rescuers pulled an injured person from a coach of the train that derailed in India's West Bengal state on Thursday night. They also found four bodies overnight as they cleared 12 coaches of the train. It raised the total death toll of the incident to nine.

The train was on its way to Gauhati in Assam state from Bikaner, a city in Rajasthan state, when the accident occurred in Jalpaiguri district. Twelve coaches of the train went off the rails and three capsized. The cause of the accident was being investigated. The government would provide financial compensation to families of the deceased and all of the injured.

Accidents are common on India’s massive but aging railway network. Safety standards have been an ongoing concern on the state-run system, which operates 9,000 passenger trains and carries about 23 million passengers every day.