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05-22-2012 14:16
NEW DELHI, At least 18 people were charred to death and more than 35 others sustained injuries in a major rail mishap in
the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh just before dawn Tuesday, a senior railway police official said.
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The mishap happened when a passenger train, the Hampi Express, rammed into a stationary freight train near Penukonda station in
the state's Anantapur district at 3:15 a.m. (local time). The train was going from the state's Hubli district to the neighboring state
of Karnataka's capital Bangalore when the collision took place.
Such great was the impact of the collision that two coaches of the passenger train caught fire. As a result, 18 passengers were
charred to death and those injured have been admitted to a local hospital where the condition of some are said to be serious, the
official said, adding that preliminary probe has revealed that the driver of the passenger train may have overshot the signal.
The death toll is likely to go up later in the day as several passengers are still feared trapped inside three damaged coaches of Hampi
Express, two of which derailed and caught fire after the collision, say railway officials.
NEW DELHI, At least 18 people were charred to death and more than 35 others sustained injuries in a major rail mishap in
the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh just before dawn Tuesday, a senior railway police official said.
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The mishap happened when a passenger train, the Hampi Express, rammed into a stationary freight train near Penukonda station in
the state's Anantapur district at 3:15 a.m. (local time). The train was going from the state's Hubli district to the neighboring state
of Karnataka's capital Bangalore when the collision took place.
Such great was the impact of the collision that two coaches of the passenger train caught fire. As a result, 18 passengers were
charred to death and those injured have been admitted to a local hospital where the condition of some are said to be serious, the
official said, adding that preliminary probe has revealed that the driver of the passenger train may have overshot the signal.
The death toll is likely to go up later in the day as several passengers are still feared trapped inside three damaged coaches of Hampi
Express, two of which derailed and caught fire after the collision, say railway officials.
