Sixteen passengers were killed and 161 injured on Friday night when 13 bogies of the Chennai-bound Coromandel Express from Howrah derailed near here in Orissa's Jajpur district, 100 km from Bhubaneswar.

General Manager East Coast Railway Ajay Kumar Goel said that 16 passengers died and 161 others were injured as the 13 bogies of express train, which was running at a high speed derailed near Jajpur Road railway station.