BHUBANESWAR, India: 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 (Oct 29), 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 occurred when the Visakhapatnam-Rayagada passenger train stopped due to 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.