The death toll from a train crash in India has unfortunately increased to 13, with 39 wounded, an official revealed on Monday, with investigators suspecting human error was the main reason of the crash in the south-eastern state of Andhra Pradesh. The tragedy befell when the Visakhapatnam-Rayagada passenger train halted on Sunday due to a break in an overhead cable and the Visakhapatnam-Palasa Express service rammed into it from the rear, putting off thr railing of two carriages of the stationary train.
Nagalakshmi S., a senior government official in the district where the hurtful incident took place , revealed Reuters that exceeding than 90 people were in the two coaches that got rammed by the second train and the toll of dead had increased to 13 with 39 people wounded. The railway ministry said a preliminary investigation found that “human error” that resulted in “overshooting of signal” by the Visakhapatnam-Rayagada train. An Andhra Pradesh fire services officer conveyed early on Monday that no passengers were left at the site.