Sixteen people died and more than 40 were reportedly injured in a train accident in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh Monday, railway officials said. The accident happened when several carriages of a passenger train derailed near the town of Datia, about 300 kilometers north of the Madhya Pradesh capital Bhopal. There was some confusion over the number of dead and injured with India's railway minister Laloo Prasad Yadav saying 16 were dead and 40 injured, while the district magistrate of Datiya said 12 were confirmed dead and 36 persons hurt. Unconfirmed reports said the number of dead could be much higher, according to a report of DPA. The Bundelkhand Express was travelling between Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh state and Gwalior town in Madhya Pradesh when it failed to receive a signal and rammed into a cabin, a railway official said.
