BOMBAY, June 16: At least 20 people were killed and about 100 injured on Wednesday when a passenger train plunged off a bridge in western India after hitting a boulder on the tracks, railways minister Lalu Prasad Yadav said.

The accident occurred early morning on a bridge between Veer and Karanjadi stations about 200km from Bombay, police said. Mangled coaches of the Matsyagandha Express lying on their sides while two carriages hung precariously from the bridge. -AFP