Hundreds of passengers were lucky to escape with their lives after a train smashed through the side of a bridge into a river.
The express train crashed after hitting a tree which had fallen onto the tracks.
This dramatic photos show the damage done to the express train after it derailed en route between Guwahati and Alipurduar early this morning.
Four people, including the driver and assistant driver, received minor injuries during the collision.
Casualties would have been heavier if the whole train had crashed into the water of the Champamati river.
Northeast Frontier Railway authorities are conducting an inquiry into the incident.
The crash comes after at least 30 people were killed and 50 injured when an express train overshot a railway signal and some carriages went off the rails in a northern Indian state on in March.
India’s creaking railway system is the world’s fourth largest, ferrying more than 20 million people each day, but it has a poor safety record, with thousands of people dying in accidents every year.
