Fire killed 38 people including at least 10 children in a packed passenger train in northern India today.
Witnesses said the train, traveling to the northern city of Amritsar from Bombay, was overloaded and exits had been blocked by luggage. Some people had tried to hide in the bathroom to escape the fire but were suffocated.
Authorities said they were not sure of the cause of the fire but ruled out sabotage.
The train, on a 37-hour journey, had just left the northern Indian city of Ludhiana when the fire started in one coach. It quickly spread to the two adjoining coaches.
It was India's worst train fire since 59 people died when a suspected Muslim mob torched a train carrying Hindu pilgrims in the western state of Gujarat last year. That fire triggered bloody Hindu-Muslim riots.
India has the world's second-largest railway network after the United States with almost 14,000 trains carrying over 13 million passengers a day. It has about 300 accidents a year.