New Delhi , India ( CNN ) A passenger train overshot a stop and jumped its tracks in northern India on Friday , killing at least 30 people and injuring more than 50 others , a railway spokesman said . The train was headed from Dehradun to the Hindu holy city of Varanasi when it overshot an intended stop more than halfway along the route , about 35 kilometers ( 22 miles ) east of Lucknow in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh , railway spokesman Neeraj Sharma said . Two coaches and the locomotive derailed . Video from the site , shown by CNN affiliate IBN , showed emergency workers pulling passengers from the train as a crowd looked on . The cause of the incident will be investigated , Sharma said . CNN 's Harmeet Singh reported from New Delhi . CNN 's Jason Hanna wrote in Atlanta .
A passenger train derails about 35 kilometers ( 22 miles ) east of Lucknow in northern India . The train overshot an intended stop , a railway spokesman says .