14 killed, 35 injured in Indian train collision

At least 14 people were killed and around 35 injured on Tuesday when a passenger train slammed into a stationary goods train in southern India, a local railway official told AFP.

The sleeper train was travelling to Bangalore, India's IT hub and the capital of Karnataka state, when it collided with the goods train at Penneconda station in the neighbouring state of Andhra Pradesh.

"At least 14 people, including one child and two women, died when three coaches of the Hampi Express overturned following a collision with a goods train," G.K. Jalan, the railways' regional public relations officer, told AFP...


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