Railway workers Monday began clearing the mangled wreckage of a derailed passenger train in northern India after ending a rescue operation that found 68 bodies. Throughout the day, anxious relatives searching for missing family members had thronged to the site of Sunday's crash as bodies wrapped in white shrouds lay in rows on the ground next to the train. By late Monday afternoon, rescue teams had finished searching the twisted coaches for victims and survivors and the repair work had begun amid pouring rain. At least 239 passengers were injured when the Kalka Mail jumped the tracks near Fatehpur in Uttar Pradesh state, Brij Lal, a senior state police official said. The main government-run hospital in Fatehpur was overrun by grieving relatives searching for their kin among the injured and the dead. “I was listening to music on the upper berth, when there was a loud bang followed by a thud. I was flung from my seat and hit my head against the side of the coach,” passenger Subajit Ghosh, 20, said at a hospital, his head swathed in bandages. Lal said the dead included two Swedish nationals. Another Swedish passenger was injured.
