Hundreds killed in Indian train crash as officials say rescue efforts completed

NEW DELHI, India —Rescuers ended a search for survivors as the death toll from a train crash that killed more than 260 people and injured hundreds more in one of the worst rail disasters in Indian history, officials said.

At least least 261 people died on Friday when two passenger trains derailed, trapping people under mangled coaches and flipped rail cars, according to an update from the South Eastern Railway company on Saturday afternoon.