Six killed in a train collision in Andhra Pradesh

Six people were killed and 18 injured on Sunday when an Express Train rammed a stationary passenger train in Andhra Pradesh, said police, months after the horrific three-train collision in Odisha that killed over 280. The passenger train was going from Visakhapatnam to Rayagada. It stopped due to a break in overhead cable. The incoming train, Palasa Express, is said to have run into the stationary train derailing three coaches.The Divisional Railway Manager has informed that it was a rear collision between the two passenger trains. Accident relief trains have reached the site of the train accident. Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has ordered immediate relief measures and dispatch of ambulances from Visakhapatnam and Anakapalli, the nearest districts of Vizianagaram.