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In these images taken from television Indian rescue workers and volunteers gather on the wreckage of train carriages as they seek to help possible survivors after an accident in the district of West Midnapore, some 135 kilometres west of the state capital Kolkata.



An express train has derailed in eastern India and slammed into an oncoming goods train,
killing at least 30 people with more casualties feared in the mangled wreckage.




One local government official said the toll could go up to "anywhere around 50-60" because many passengers were trapped inside mangled coaches.



A railway spokesman said sabotage was suspected, but the involvement of the Maoists has yet to be confirmed.



A reporter of the Telegraph newspaper described a scene of chaos and panic at the site.
"People are crying. Rescuers are struggling to save the survivors and get the bodies out," Naresh Jana told Reuters.



"I can see body parts hanging out of the compartments and under the wheels.
I can hear people, women, crying for help from inside the affected coaches."




The blast derailed 13 coaches of the Gyaneshwari Express. These coaches then fell on the other track where a goods train rammed into some of them.



The incident comes days after a passenger airliner crashed in southern India, killing 158 people. The Maoist rebels blew up a bus in the mineral-rich state of Chhattisgarh this month, killing 35 people, about a month after 76 police were killed in another attack.