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Rescuers and others meet after two passenger exercises collided in Vizianagaram district, Andhra Pradesh state, India. The twist of fate occurred when an incoming exercise collided with an exercise on a desk, causing at least three cars to derailment.
HYDERABAD, India — Two passenger trains collided in southern India on Sunday, killing six more people and injuring 40 others, officials said.
The twist of fate occurred in Andhra Pradesh’s Vizianagaram district when an incoming exercise collided with an exercise on a desk, causing at least three carriages to derail, senior railway official Saurab Prasad said.
Several first responders and citizens rescued injured passengers from the rubble.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy called on the government to send as many ambulances as possible to the crash site and ordered additional rescue measures.
Train injuries are not unusual in India and are basically attributed to human error or replaced signaling equipment.
In June, more than 280 people died in one of the country’s deadliest railway injuries in decades, after two passenger trains collided in eastern India.
More than 12 million people travel on 14,000 trains across India every day, covering 64,000 kilometers (40,000 miles) of track.
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