Thirteen people died and 40 injured in a rail accident in Andhra Pradesh after a passenger train overshot the signal and hit another from behind on the Howrah-Chennai line last evening.
The accident occurred between two passenger trains on the Howrah-Chennai line last evening in Vizianagaram district. Eighteen trains were cancelled and 22 diverted following the accident.
A special passenger train between Visakhapatnam and Palasa had stopped on the tracks between Alamanda and Kantakapalle due to no signal when a Vizag-Raigad passenger train hit it from behind. Three coaches were derailed in the impact.