In Pictures | Death and destruction at the Indore-Patna express derailment site
The scene on the site was as horrifying as one could imagine it to be.
The death toll on Monday mounted to 146 in the Indore-Patna Express derailment here in Kanpur rural area as rescuers wrapped up their operation with little hope of finding any survivors after overnight efforts to pull out trapped passengers from the mangled bogies.
Volunteers from several NGOs, RSS, Sikh organisations and even from many political outfits remained at the accident site till late in the night as rescuers struggled to pull out passengers trapped in the mangled bogies.
Officials had said that prima facie the cause of the accident could be due to track fracture.
Here are some of the photographs from the ground zero.
(With agency inputs)