The death toll from the collision in the southeastern state of Andhra Pradesh has risen to 14, with at least 50 injured, a railway official said on Monday (October 30). The accident occurred when the Visakhapatnam-Rayagada passenger train stopped on Sunday because of a break in an overhead cable and the Visakhapatnam-Palasa Express service rammed into it from the rear, derailing two carriages of the stationary train.
The railway ministry said a preliminary investigation found that “human error” led to “overshooting of signal” by the Visakhapatnam-Rayagada train.
The accident came months after India’s state-run railway system suffered its worst crash in two decades when 292 people were killed.
Indian Railways, the fourth largest rain network in the world, is undergoing a $30 billion transformation with new train and modern stations in the pipeline.
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