Train crash in India. More than 50 passengers killed at the scene and hundreds of others trapped in the overturned carriages.

When the incident, the higher speed train, crashing into the train’s was stopped at the station Birbhum, about 200 meters north of Calcutta, West Bengal state capital. One of the rear of the train carriage was pulled from the tracks, even down to the bridge crossing the passengers almost five meters high at the station.

Passengers who survived and prospective passengers with rescue team to evacuate the wounded. Until noon, the death toll has more than 50 people. “We’re still struggling to remove some of the victims from train,” said a senior police officer, Humayun Kabir, by telephone from the scene.

There has been no report about the cause of a train crashed into it. Most of those killed was a passenger in the back of a crowded carriage. “We do not have their names and vital information about them to tell their relatives,” said Sunil Banerjee, manager of the company which deals with the Indian railways. Many passengers are not recorded.

Indian Railways Minister, Mamata Banerjee and other senior officials are also on the way to the scene. The accident occurred less than two months after a train crash blamed on Maoist saboteurs, which killed nearly 150 people in West Bengal.

Train system run by the government – is a mainstay of transportation distance travel in India despite fierce competition from new private airlines – carrying 18.5 million passengers every day. In India, an average of 300 accidents occurred trains crash each year, and previous events have left hundreds dead.