Rescue workers have been sent to help people: Spokesperson for Southern Railways PHOTO: FILE
VJ Accamma, a spokesperson for Southern Railways, confirmed the death of at least two people in the accident, which occurred just after dawn in the small village of Chitteri in the southern state of Tamil Nadu.
"At least two persons have been killed, we are still trying to verify the numbers of injured," Accamma told AFP.
"Rescue workers have been sent to help people after the train derailed around 5:50 this morning," he added.
The train was on its way from the town of Muzaffarpur in eastern India to the suburb of Yeshwantpur in the southern technology hub of Bangalore, he said.
India's colonial-era train system has a notoriously bad accident record. The country's worst rail accident occurred in 1981 when a train plunged into a river in the eastern state of Bihar, killing an estimated 800 people.
Derailments, collisions and other accidents are also common.
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@vaibhav: yeah agreed.....though collisions have become rare....derailments are still common....when u have such a busy network acciendent chances increases....look at pakistan...u rarely come across an acciedent....dats coz daily 100 trains are cancelled there :)
"India’s colonial-era train system has a notoriously bad accident record. The country’s worst rail accident occurred in 1981 when a train plunged into a river in the eastern state of Bihar, killing an estimated 800 people.""
Considering the large network and high frequency of trains in indian railways accidents r bound to happen.but it is also true that with the advancement in techonology now accidents r rare .
the fact is that indian railways is moved far ahead frm colonial-era train system.
last month indian railways launched live train tracking system and Wi-Fi facility in AC COACHES. All metros Delhi, Chennai, Banglore , Kolkata r having high speed METRO TRAIN facility.
in Mumbai construction of MONORAIL is going on.
THE REASONS BEHIND SLOW DEVELOPMENT R LACK OF WILLINGNESS AND DIRTY POLITICS.