Train crash in India generated serious emergency: impressive images

At least 19 people were injured after a collision between a passenger train and another freight train, which was parkedin southern India, reported the authorities of this Asian country.

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The accident occurred last night near the city of Chennai, in the state of Tamil Nadu, when the passenger railway “collided with a freight train and about six cars derailed,” Tiruvallur District Collector T. Prabhushankar told the media on Saturday.

About 1,360 people were traveling on the train, the official added, adding that no deaths were reported. but “19 people were injured, four of them with serious injuries.”

According to the general manager of the southern division of Railways, RN Singh, andThe passenger train covered the route between the states of Karnataka (south) and Bihar (northwest), and made an inappropriate change of trackwhich caused it to collide with the rear of the goods transport, which was parked.

“The injured were immediately taken to the nearby hospital,” he added.

Images spread on social networks show several train cars completely overturned, while some ended up located on the track that runs in the opposite direction, lor that caused the route of several trains to be canceled or modified this Saturday.

The operators were working for several hours to remove the carriages, while the authorities ordered an investigation to clarify the details of the accident.

Rail accidents are not uncommon in India, which has the world’s fourth largest railway network by length, and between April 2017 and March 2021, 2,017 incidents were recorded with derailment as the most common cause, according to a recent Auditor General (CAG) report.

At least 15 people died and dozens were injured last June in a crash between a passenger train and a freight train in the northwestern Indian state of West Bengal.

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