Search for survivors ends at an Indian train that derailed on November 20, killing at least 146 people, in the worst disaster to hit the country's ageing rail network in recent years. ( SANJAY KANOJIA / AFP/GETTY IMAGES )PUKHRAYAN, INDIA—The death toll from India’s worst train accident in years rose to 146 on Monday after rescuers used cranes to lift the last of the twisted metal wreckage to check for bodies underneath. It occurred near Kanpur city, a major railway junction and a key link in India’s rail network for connecting the eastern and western parts of the country. According to a government report in 2012, about 15,000 people are killed every year in train accidents. The worst occurred in 1981, when a train fell into the Baghmati River in northern India, killing nearly 800 people.

Source: thestar November 21, 2016 15:18 UTC