At least 50 people died in a bus crash on Wednesday between Kenya’s capital Nairobi and the western city of Kisumu, police told the Daily Nation newspaper.

Witnesses said the bus swerved off the road while driving down a steep slope, the newspaper said.

Reuters could not immediately reach a police spokesman to confirm the information.

At least five people died and 30 were injured on Wednesday when a passenger train derailed in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, media reported.

The accident took place in Harchandpur, located some 77 km (48 miles) south of the state capital Lucknow, Reuters partner ANI News said in a Tweet.

Emergency rescue teams are currently at the accident site, television reports said.</s>(Reuters) - At least five people died and 30 were injured on Wednesday when a passenger train derailed in Uttar Pradesh, media reported.

The accident took place in Harchandpur, located some 77 km (48 miles) south of the state capital Lucknow, Reuters partner ANI News said in a Tweet.

Emergency rescue teams are currently at the accident site, television reports said.</s>HARCHANDPUR, Oct 10 — At least five people died and 30 were injured this morning when a passenger train derailed in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, media reported.

The accident took place in Harchandpur, located some 77km south of the state capital Lucknow, Reuters partner ANI News said in a Tweet.

Emergency rescue teams are currently at the accident site, television reports said. — Reuters</s>An express train partially derailed in northern India killing at least five passengers and leaving dozens injured, police said.

Director general of police in Uttar Pradesh state, OP Singh, said rescuers responded to the scene where the train's engine and five cars derailed about 5:30 am local time (24:00 GMT) on Wednesday.

The derailment occurred at a railway station in Rae Bareli, 80km southwest of Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh state.

At least 35 passengers were injured and taken to hospitals. Nine people are reported to be in serious condition, Singh said.

Several passengers are feared trapped and emergency teams are currently at the accident site. All up and down lines on the route have been blocked.

The train was expected to reach New Delhi a little after 2:30pm today (10:00 GMT), according to local reports.

The derailment occurred when the train was entering the station zone, but the cause was not clear.

Train crashes are all too common in India after decades of poor investment and rising demand.

The state-run railway system operates 9,000 passenger trains and carries some 23 million passengers every day.</s>Indian authorities wrapped up rescue operations in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday after a train derailed, killing at least six people, and injuring around 25.

The accident occurred around 6:30 am on Wednesday near Rae Bareli when several coaches of a New Delhi-bound train derailed, a National Disaster Management Authority official, Niraj Kumar told EFE.</s>Five people have died and several people have been injured after a train derailed in Uttar Pradesh's Raebareli this morning, according to news agency ANI.

The accident took place near the Harchandpur railway station in Raebareli.

Rescue teams are at the site of accident. The injured passengers have been taken to nearby hospitals.

Railway Board Chairman Ashwani Lohani on way to accident site, according to news agency PTI, quoting sources.

Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanath has directed officials and health authorities to provide all possible relief and rescue efforts.</s>New Farakka Express: Five dead, 30 injured after train derailment in India

RAEBARELI: At least five people died and 30 were injured on Wednesday when New Farakka Express derailed in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, media reported.



The accident took place in Harchandpur, located some 77 km (48 miles) south of the state capital Lucknow, Reuters partner ANI News said in a Tweet.

Emergency rescue teams are currently at the accident site, television reports said.</s>At least five people were killed and 30 were injured on Wednesday when a passenger train derailed in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, media reported.

The crash happened in Harchandpur, located some 48 south of the state capital Lucknow.

Emergency rescue teams are currently at the site, according to reports.

Officials said the crash happened at about 6.05am on Wednesday morning (1.35am BST).</s>A train today reportedly got derailed in Uttar Pradesh , killing five and injuring many others.Media reports identified the train as the New Farakka Express The train got derailed in Uttar Pradesh's Rae Bareli , reports added.The derailment occured 50 m from Harchandpur railway station this morning, ANI has reported. NDRF teams from Lucknow and Varanasi have reached the spot."CM Yogi Adityanath has taken cognisance of the train accident 50 m from Harchandpur railway station. He has directed the DM, SP, health authorities and NDRF to provide all possible relief and rescue," wire agency ANI tweeted a while back.</s>Indian Railways may use one of its existing facilities to manufacture the coaches for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train, a dream project of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Modern Coach Factory in Uttar Pradesh’s Rae Bareli is one of the options being explored by Indian Railways. MCF had made a detailed presentation to the high-powered committee on the bullet train project recently. “A fresh plant for making bullet train coaches would require a strong order book, which will not be possible with a single project,” a person close to the development said on the condition of anonymity. “Any manufacturer will set up a plant only if there is assured demand,” the official told Financial Express Online.

The land acquisition process for the project is on. While laying the foundation stone for the Rs 1.1 lakh crore project, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced that the project would be executed under the Make in India programme. Recently, an MCF team under Rajesh Agrawal, the then general manager of the Modern Coach Factory, made a presentation to a high-level group on the possibility of manufacturing bullet train coaches at the facility. This group, consisting of officials from India and Japan, is closely monitoring the progress of the bullet train project. Agrawal has since become a member of the Railway Board.

The presentation by MCF highlighted the fact that the Rae Bareli facility has robotic production lines, which would make it easier to manufacture bullet train coaches. The possibility of using Indian Railways coach factories for the bullet train may come up for discussion during PM Modi’s visit to Japan later this year.

In a recent interaction with Financial Express Online, Achal Khare, MD of National High Speed Rail Corporation, said that the Japanese E5 Shinkansen bullet train will be modified for Indian conditions. NHSRCL is the executing body of the bullet train project. India will initially require 24 rakes of the bullet train, of which 18 are expected to be procured directly from Japan while the rest will be assembled or manufactured under Make in India.

Additions to the bullet train fleet will be made every few years depending on the wear and tear of the existing rakes and the demand. The Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train will cover the 508-kilometre distance between the two cities in around 3 hours, and will stop at 12 stations. The bullet train is expected to be rolled out by August 15, 2022, while full-fledged operations will begin in 2023.
At least five people died and 30 were injured when a passenger train derailed in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.