{"id":10844,"date":"2023-10-30T01:51:45","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T01:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/30\/at-least-10-reported-dead-after-trains-collide-in-southeast-india\/"},"modified":"2023-10-30T01:51:45","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T01:51:45","slug":"at-least-10-reported-dead-after-trains-collide-in-southeast-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/30\/at-least-10-reported-dead-after-trains-collide-in-southeast-india\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 10 reported dead after trains collide in southeast India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      At least\u00a010\u00a0people are dead and\u00a027\u00a0others have been injured after two trains collided in southeast India Sunday, Reuters reports.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      A train traveling from\u00a0Visakhapatnam, in the state of Andhra Pradesh, to Rayagada, in Odisha, had stopped due to a break in an overhead cable when it was hit by an oncoming train, in the Vizianagaram district of Andhra Pradesh, Reuters said, citing a senior railway official.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The collision derailed two coaches carrying more than 90 people on the stationary train, the official told Reuters.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      A preliminary investigation suggests \u201chuman error\u201d caused by \u201covershooting of signal\u201d by the stationary train is what led to the collision,\u00a0a statement from the country\u2019s railway ministry read.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Sunday\u2019s collision comes just four months after a separate train accident in Odisha, where three trains collided, leaving 275 people dead and more than 1,000 injured.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Rescue operations are underway at the accident site,\u00a0and all of the injured have been moved to hospitals,\u00a0Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on X.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The Chief Minister\u2019s Office of\u00a0Andhra Pradesh said on X it had ordered officials to take quick relief measures to ensure the injured get prompt medical attention and advised nearby districts to send first responders to the scene.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The office of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Sunday he had spoken with Vaishnaw about the accident.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cAuthorities are providing all possible assistance to those affected,\u201d the post on X read. \u201cThe Prime Minister extends condolences to the bereaved families and prays that the injured recover soon.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least\u00a010\u00a0people are dead and\u00a027\u00a0others have been injured after two trains collided in southeast India Sunday, Reuters reports. A train traveling from\u00a0Visakhapatnam, in the state of Andhra Pradesh, to Rayagada, in Odisha, had stopped due to a break in an overhead cable when it was hit by an oncoming train, in the Vizianagaram district of <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10845,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}