Police and volunteers look for survivors Saturday in the wreckage of a train derailment in northern India.
CNN  — 

At least 23 people were killed and 40 injured Saturday after a train derailed in northern India, police said.

The express train from Puri to Haridwar derailed near the city of Khatauli, Uttar Pradesh Police said in a statement.

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Eight of the train’s coaches derailed and toppled over each other, police said.

The injured have been sent to local hospitals.

From journalist Huizhong Wu in New Delhi.