India train crash kills 13 and injures dozens
A train collision in India’s southern Andhra Pradesh state has killed at least 13 people and left around 50 injured.
The two passenger trains collided on Sunday and a massive rescue operation was launched, with hundreds of emergency workers searching through the wreckage.
A preliminary investigation found that a “human error” had led to the crash.
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has expressed his condolences and said he was in touch with the railways minister.
Officials said three carriages of a passenger train, derailed around 19:00 after it was hit by another train
The train had stopped on the tracks “due to a break in an overhead cable”, when a second incoming passenger train travelling between Visakhapatnam and Rayagada rammed into it from behind, a railway official told Reuters news agency.
