At least 13 people have been killed and 50 more injured in a train accident on the Howarh-Chennai line in the Andhra Pradesh state of India, media reports say.
“The death toll rose to 13 and over 50 people were hospitalised”, said Vizianagaram police chief Deepika M Patil.
The divisional railway manager of Waltair Division, Saurabh Prasad, said that the locopilot of Visakhapatnam-Rayagada train overshoot the signal and hit the Visakhapatnam-Palasa train which was heading on the same track, The Times of India reported.
As many as 33 trains have been cancelled and six others rescheduled after the accident in which two trains collided in Vizianagaram, East Coast Railway.
The mishap took place when a passenger train travelling from Visakhapatnam to Rayagada derailed after colliding with another train near the Kothavalasa railway station in Vizianagaram district on Sunday night.
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