Train Accidents are very commonly heard in Asia, but the sad part of it recent past months too India had seen a bigger accidents.  This accident has been one the major accidents which occurred in India for this year where by death toll is increasing as rescuers are progressing. More than 50 people were killed in a collision between two trains early Monday in the state of West Bengal (east India), and more casualties are feared, many passengers as prisoners of debris, officials said .

Earlier a spokesman of the railways, Anil Saxena, joined in Calcutta, the capital of West Bengal, had told AFP that 48 bodies had been extracted from the debris, adding expect “more dead”.

Most of those killed were at the rear of the train, in wagons without numbered seats, which are usually crowded.

“The deceased passengers traveling in compartments without reservation. We have neither their names nor essential information to inform their relatives,” explained his side to AFP Sunil Banerjee, a local rail traffic.

“The rescue trains were sent from Calcutta,” he added.

The accident comes less than two months after another crash, attributed to a Maoist rebel sabotage, which killed nearly 150 people in West Bengal.

The rail network, operated by the state, carrying 18.5 million people every day in India and is the primary means of long distance transportation in this vast country, despite fierce competition from new private airlines.

Each year, there were 300 rail accidents and previous accidents have claimed hundreds of lives.

In 1995, more than 300 people were killed in a collision near Ferozabad, near the city of Agra, home to the famous Taj Mahal.

The worst accident was in 1981, when a train derailed before falling into a river in Bihar (East), killing 800 people.

An express train traveling at Calcutta struck early Monday morning, the rear of another train that had stopped at a station of Birbhum district, about 200 km north of state capital .

The impact was so violent that one of the rear cars of the train at the stop was thrown into the air on a bridge over the tracks, where he remained hooked.

Relief continued to pull dead bodies or seriously injured passengers piles of sheets, helped by a crowd of onlookers who gathered around the accident site.

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