HYDERABAD, India — Two passenger trains collided in southern India on Sunday, killing six folks and inuring 40, officers mentioned.

The crash occurred in Andhra Pradesh state’s Vizianagaram district when an incoming practice slammed right into a stationary practice, resulting in derailment of at the very least three rail vehicles, senior railway officer Saurab Prasad mentioned.

Multiple rescue groups and residents had been extracting injured passengers from the wreckage.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy requested authorities to ship as many ambulances as potential to the crash website and ordered different aid measures.

Train crashes are widespread in India and are sometimes blamed totally on human error or outdated signaling gear.

In June, greater than 280 folks had been killed in one of many nation’s deadliest rail crashes in many years after two passenger trains rammed into one another in japanese India.

More than 12 million folks trip 14,000 trains throughout India day by day, touring on 64,000 kilometers (40,000 miles) of monitor.