At least 10 dead and 25 injured in India after 2 passenger trains crash into each other
- The railway ministry said two coaches of one of the trains were derailed and an early investigation found that ‘human error’ had led to the collision
- The crash, in Andhra Pradesh state, comes months after India’s state-run railways suffered its worst train crash in 2 decades, in which 292 people died
At least 10 people were killed and about 25 were injured in a collision between two passenger trains in India’s Andhra Pradesh state on Sunday, a senior government official said.
The railway ministry said in a statement that two coaches of one of the trains carrying passengers were derailed and a preliminary investigation found that “human error” had led to the collision, caused by “overshooting of signal” by the Visakhapatnam-Rayagada passenger train between Alamanda and Kantakapalle.
Nagalakshmi. S, a senior government official stationed in Vizianagaram, a district near the accident site, told Reuters that 27 people were injured and more than 90 people were travelling in the two coaches hit by the collision.
The accident happened when the Visakhapatnam-Rayagada passenger train stopped because of a break in an overhead cable and the oncoming train, a Visakhapatnam-Palasa Express service, rammed into it, derailing carriages of the stationary train, a senior railways official said.
Andhra Pradesh’s Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy ordered immediate relief measures to be taken and asked for ambulances to be rushed from Visakhapatnam and Anakapalli, the nearest districts to Vizianagaram, his office said in a statement.