One Australian woman was among seven passengers killed in a train fire in India on Tuesday. Three other Australian passengers were injured in the accident that occured 2 a.m. local time in Jharkhand state.

Katie Scanlan, 21, was identified as the Australian fatality. She and three other students were headed for the Buddhist holy city of Bodh Gaya aboard the Howrah-Dehradun Express train when its airconditioned coach caught fire and spread to another coach.
Also killed were a 4-year-old and 8-year-old girls

The three injured Australians were being treated for burns in hospital, rail divisional manager Sudhir Kumar said, according to ABC.

The train travelling from Kolkata to the northern town of Dehradun caught fire while between Nimiyaghat and Parasnath railway stations in Jharkhand's Giridih district. The train driver detached the burning coaches to isolate these and prevent harm to other passengers.

The cause of the fire is still unknown reasons. Authorities are looking at an electrical fault, gas cylinder blast or sabotage.

Railway authorities learned from witnesses that two suspicious men who boarded at the Gomoh station left bags in an empty berth. Smoke and flames later came out of the bag, said Mohammed Zahid Khurashi, who was in the coach where the fire first started.