26 die in train, 26 on bus

May 23, 2012 - Akanksha Mehrotra |

Age Correspondent

Penukonda (Andhra Pradesh)

Rescuers evacuate an injured child from a coach of the Hampi Express after the passenger train rammed into the rear of a station

Twenty-six people were killed and over 45 injured when the Bengaluru-bound Hampi Express rammed into a parked goods train at Penukonda station in Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh at around 3.20 am Tuesday morning.
A case has been booked against the loco motive pilot and assistant locomotive pilot of the Hampi Express.
Most of the dead were charred beyond recognition in the fire that engulfed the coaches but railway authorities said they were able to identify 18 of the 26 passengers killed in the train tragedy here on Tuesday.
The Guntakal State Railway Police said the accident victims, including three women, and three children were labourers from Koppal, Bellary, Raichur and Gadag districts of Karnataka. The majority of the 45 people injured are also believed to be from Karnataka.
Preliminary investigations by the commissioner for railway safety suggest the locomotive pilot’s negligence in overlooking the signal led to the accident. The Hampi Express, which left Hubli, in Karnataka, at 6 in the evening on Monday, hit the rear of the stationary goods train at Penukonda railway station in the Dharmavaram-Benga-luru section.

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