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1 of 3. Rescuers search for survivors from the debris of a passenger train after it derailed near Nidi village in the western Indian state of Maharashtra May 4, 2014.
The accident took place in Raigad district, around 100 km (60 miles) south of India's financial capital Mumbai, when the engine and some of the coaches of the train came off the tracks on Sunday morning.
The train was travelling from Diva, in suburban Mumbai, to Sawantwadi, close to the beach resort state of Goa. The exact cause of the accident was not yet known.
Police in Raigad said on Sunday night that 19 people had been killed and 132 injured.
The Konkan Railway Corporation, the government-owned company that operates the railway line, put the death toll at 13 and the number of people injured at 123 in a statement on its website earlier on Sunday.
(Reporting by Ankush Arora; Writing by Shyamantha Asokan; Editing by Stephen Powell)
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