An official said: "The 15 carriages of the Sealdah-Ajmer express train 12988 derailed in the early hours.”

Twitter The 15 carriage long train left 28 people fighting for their lives in hospital

Rescue teams are desperately trying to quickly recover as many passengers from the carnage as possible, as reports suggest up to 24 passengers have been hospitalised. Superintendent of Police Prabhakar Chaudhary, while speaking of the train accident, said that the accident occured near Kanpur and reason was not not immediately known. Play slideshow EPA 1 of 10 Relief and rescue workers gather on the site of an accident where an Ajmer-Sealdah Express train derailed some 50 km from Kanpur, India, 28 December 2016

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In November, 127 people were killed and 150 injured when 14 coaches of a passenger train slid off the track.
The Ajmer–Sealdah Express operated by Indian Railways derails in northern India killing at least two people and injuring dozens. Twenty four people have been hospitalised.