Two trains have derailed in India, killing at least four passengers, including two British tourists.
Three coaches of a special tourist train went off the tracks near the northern hill town of Kalka, in Himachal Pradesh state.
The train was rounding a curve when the coaches derailed, said Neeraj Sharma, a railway official.
Two women, both British tourists, died instantly in the accident. Five other passengers were injured, Sharma said.
No other details were immediately available.
Suresh Prabhu, India's railway minister, ordered an investigation into the accident.
The train, known as "a toy train", is a tourist attraction with only five coaches that does a scenic route to the mountain resort town of Shimla.
Earlier on Saturday, nine coaches of a train derailed in southern India, killing at least two people and leaving several injured.
Police and rescuers helped pull out scores of passengers from the coaches, which fell onto their side near Gulbarga in Karnataka state after the train derailed, Indian Railway spokesman Anil Saksena said.
The injured were taken to hospitals in Gulbarga, about 600 kilometres north of India's technology hub of Bangalore.
The cause of the derailment was not immediately known.
India operates one of the world's largest railway networks, with about 23 million passengers travelling by train every day.
Safety standards on the massive state-run railway network have been a continuing concern amid a spate of accidents.
Two passenger trains derailed last month over a bridge in central India while crossing a track that was flooded by heavy monsoon rains, killing at least 24 people.
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