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Two passenger trains derailed after being hit by flash floods on a bridge in central India, killing at least 31 people in the latest deadly accident on the nation's crumbling rail network.
Rescuers have been searching through the night for passengers trapped on the trains that toppled when a swollen river struck the tracks in Madhya Pradesh state, railway officials said.
Roughly 300 people were rescued after about 10 of the trains' carriages derailed outside the town of Harda at about 11.30 pm (1800 GMT) on Tuesday, police and other officials said.
A passenger described how water poured into the carriages in the minutes after the accident.
"Water filled the coach till here," the unnamed man told a regional TV station, gesturing to his waist.
Another said there was "a sudden jerk and the carriage broke and people were crushed under that".
Television footage showed carriages lying on their sides in a field of mud and medical supplies piled on a nearby station platform.
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HARDA, MADHYA PRADESH, INDIA. 5 AUGUST 2015
VIDEO SOURCE AFP: NEWS WIRE SERVICE
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- VAR of rescue operations
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