23 Killed, 50 Injured as Train Derails in Southern India

A train passes by a road intersection in 2013 in Lucknow, India, where at least 45 people were killed Sunday morning following a derailment. Photo: BOMBMAN / Flickr

HYDERABAD, India — Railway officials say that at least 23 people have been killed and 50 others injured after a passenger train derailed in southern India.

Divisional Railway manager Chandralekha Mukherji says the accident took place in the Vizianagram district of Andhra Pradesh around midnight Saturday.

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She says seven coaches of the Hirakand Express were thrown off the tracks.

Rescue workers are at the site Sunday morning trying to cut open mangled coaches.

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It’s the latest accident on India’s massive but poorly maintained railway network.