At least nine people have been killed after a fire engulfed a train in India.

Footage from the scene clearly showed a number of coaches had been gutted by the blaze.

Officials say the train was heading out of Western Indian city of Mumbai when it caught fire.

India’s immense state-owned railway which operates some 9000 trains and carries almost 20 million passengers a day has notoriously bad track record.

Only in December, 26 people were killed in a similar train fire. That deadly incident was blamed on an electrical short circuit.