Officials have reported {that a} practice accident in southern India on Sunday evening resulted within the lack of at the least 14 lives and left over 50 people injured.
The incident, involving two trains, occurred in Andhra Pradesh state, in response to Indian Railways and authorities officers.
Fourteen individuals died within the accident, a senior civil official within the state’s Vizianagaram district informed Anadolu Agency (AA) by cellphone on Monday.
A spokesperson of Indian Railways, Biswajit Sahu, mentioned that over 50 individuals had been injured and that rescue efforts had concluded, with the main focus now being on observe restoration work.
Earlier, Indian Railways had mentioned a Visakhapatnam-Palasa passenger practice and Visakhapatnam-Rayagada Passenger Special had been concerned. A railways spokesperson mentioned the probably cause is “human error and the overshooting of the signal by the Visakhapatnam-Rayagada passenger train.”
“Two coaches of the Visakhapatnam-Palasa Passenger train from the rear and the loco of the Visakhapatnam-Rayagada passenger train got derailed,” it mentioned.
The incident is the second this month. Four individuals had been killed earlier this month after the coaches of a passenger practice derailed in Bihar state.
In June, in japanese Odisha state, an accident involving two passenger trains and a freight practice left greater than 290 individuals lifeless and over 1,000 injured.
Source: www.dailysabah.com