At least two people were killed and 38 others were injured when a train derailed in India early Wednesday, police said.

    Fifteen cars of an express train came off the track about 50 kilometres outside the city of Kanpur in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, a railways spokesman said. Two coaches fell into a dry canal alongside the tracks, broadcaster India Today reported.  The cause was not immediately known. 

    Police officer Zaki Ahmed two of the eight critically injured passengers died later in a hospital. All of the other injured have been hospitalized. It was the second recent rail accident in the region. In November, 127 people were killed and 150 injured when 14 coaches of a passenger train slid off the track.

Source: QNA