20 Killed, 87 Injured in Indian Derail

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20 Killed, 87 Injured in Indian Derail

Twenty people were killed and 87 injured when nine bogies of Hyderabad-Bangalore Express derailed in a remote village in Karnool district of south India's Andhra Pradesh just after midnight.

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Twenty people were killed and 87 injured when nine bogies of Hyderabad-Bangalore Express derailed in a remote village in Karnool district of south India's Andhra Pradesh just after midnight.

Andhra Pradesh Minister for Higher Technical Education Anjayenalu escaped unhurt when the Bangalore bound train jumped rails 40 minutes after midnight at a spot where the track was found broken, railway officials said.

It was Anjayenalu who informed the authorities about the accident, the Press Trust of India said. Two of the bogies turned upside down and a couple more lay on their sides while some otherswere badly mangled with one mounting on another.

Eyewitnesses said that 20 people were killed. Additional Superintendent of the police K Prabhakar Rao put the death figure at 18 on the spot and one in hospital.

According to Rao, the dead included 15 men and four women. Of the 87 injured, six were seriously hurt and 57 suffered minor injures.

South Central Railway General Manager S N Singla said preliminary investigations showed that the railway line was broken.

The Commissioner for Railway Safety of South Central region is probing the accident, he added.

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