YEREVAN, AUGUST 19, ARMENPRESS. An express train has ploughed into a packed rickshaw in northern India, killing 20 people, eight of them children, informs “Armenpress”.

The train was going full speed when it hit the motorized rickshaw at a manned crossing in the northern state of Bihar on August 18, the Press Trust of India reported.

All the victims were from the same family.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted his condolences to the victims' relatives after the crash, which also seriously injured two people.

Deadly train accidents are common on India's railways, whose vast and rundown network carries tens of millions of people daily.

In 2012 a government report said almost 15,000 people were killed every year on the network, describing the deaths as an annual 'massacre' due mainly to poor safety standards.