In brief: Bodies pulled from train wreckage

FATEHPUR, India – Rescue workers pulled more bodies today from the mangled wreckage of a passenger train that derailed in northern India, as the death toll climbed to 67.

Many more bodies were believed trapped under the twisted coaches, and soldiers were using gas cutters to slice through the metal, said Col. Amarjit Dhillon, a senior army official in charge of rescue operations.

The cause of Sunday afternoon’s derailment near the town of Fatehpur in Uttar Pradesh state was not immediately known, but newspaper reports said the driver of the Kalka Mail slammed on the train’s emergency brakes to save some cattle squatting on the tracks.

Railway authorities were investigating the cause of the accident, said H.C. Joshi, a senior railway official.

Volunteers and soldiers worked through the night to pull many of the more than 100 injured from the train’s 12 shattered coaches. Officials said the train was carrying about 1,000 passengers, but the exact number was not known.

At least one coach flew above the roof of another ahead of it and was dangling precariously, while another coach was thrown away from the rest of the train.

Miners suffer string of calamities

BEIJING – Chinese state media say 21 workers are trapped in a flooded mine in eastern China in the country’s fourth serious mining disaster in the past 10 days.

The official Xinhua News Agency said today that water flooded a pit in Weifang city in Shandong province late Sunday.

It said seven workers in the pit managed to escape, but the fate of 21 others was not known.

Rescuers are still searching for 63 miners trapped from three other incidents, some for as long as nine days.

In Shandong, 28 coal miners are still trapped after an air compressor caught fire Wednesday.

In southern Guangxi, 12 workers have been stranded in a coal pit since July 2. In neighboring Guizhou province, 23 workers haven’t been seen since a colliery flood nine days ago.

Injuries, but no gorings, at bull run

PAMPLONA, Spain – Thousands of thrill-seekers ran with the bulls on a crowded fourth day at the San Fermin festival in Pamplona on Sunday. Ten people were injured, but no one was gored.

Several runners tripped, fell and were trampled as crowds raced alongside the massive bulls of the famous Miura breeding estate, founded in 1849.

The Sunday run is usually the biggest of the eight that take place annually and is particularly favored by aficionados because it traditionally features Miuras, renowned as Spain’s largest fighting bulls.

Navarra Hospital reported in a statement that 10 people received treatment for minor injuries including arm and head trauma. Nine of them – all Spaniards of ages ranging from 19 to 41 – were kept in for observation.

Pamplona experts at state television TVE said around 3,500 people had run with the bulls Sunday.