24 dead, 100 injured in India train wreck , July 10, 2011 -- Updated 1327 GMT (2127 HKT)

New Delhi, India (CNN) -- At least 24 people were killed and 100 others injured as a train carrying them jumped tracks in northern India Sunday, authorities said. The wreck in Fatehpur district of Uttar Pradesh state involved 13 cars of the Kalka Mail, Indian railway spokesman Anil Kumar Saxena said.
Senior district official Ramchandra confirmed 24 deaths from the derailment. The official has only one name.
Television footage showed giant blue carriages toppled on their sides and on top of each other at the scene of the crash. Local people were seen stretchering injured people off in bed sheets.
Residents were shown breaking windowpanes of wrecked compartments and lifting trapped passengers down by hand.
Authorities said they had rushed emergency crews and medical aid to the site.
India's massive rail network, used by hundreds of thousands of passengers daily, has a poor safety record.
On Thursday, more than 30 people were killed when a train collided with a bus trying to cross an unguarded railroad, also in Uttar Pradesh. The victims were all bus passengers.

Official figures show 100 train accidents occurred in India in the 2009-10 fiscal year and 115 in 2008-09.