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10 injured in train derailment, N India

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-09-25 10:03

Local residents stand beside a derailed carriage of a passenger train at Kanshiram Nagar district in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Sept 24, 2010. Ten causalities have been reported so far in the accident on Friday after a passenger train derailed in the flood waters after heavy rains in the region, local media reported. [Photo/Agencies]

NEW DELHI - Around 10 people were injured when a train derailed early Friday in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh after some rail tracks were washed away by flood, reported local TV channel Times Now.

The incident took place near the town of Kasanj when the engine and some bigies of the Kasanj-Lucknow Express passenger train derailed after some tracks went missing in flood, said the report.

Some northern Indian states have been hit by floods over the past few weeks due to continuous heavy rains.