Indian Train Plunge Toll Grows to 57

The death toll from an accident in which three train carriages tumbled from a bridge into a river in southern India rose to 57 on Saturday as three more bodies were recovered.

Police said the navy rescue operation that began after Friday’s disaster had been called off.

Nearly 300 people were injured in the accident on the Mangalore-Chennai Mail train in the state of Kerala.

Railway officials and construction workers at the scene said they suspected that one of the girders of the century-old bridge gave way as the train passed over it.

Meanwhile, more than 30 people were feared dead after a boat capsized Saturday in the River Ganges in the eastern state of West Bengal, officials said.

The boat was carrying about 110 people. Seventy were rescued and four bodies recovered. The remaining passengers are believed to have died in the river, officials said.