Train runs over passengers in southern India; at least 8 killed

New Delhi: A speeding express prepare slammed into an assembly of individuals in southern India Saturday, killing no less than eight after they jumped from an alternate prepare emulating reasons for
alarm of a blast, reports said. Scores of individuals were likewise apparently harmed in the mischance at Gotlam station in the state of Andhra Pradesh. The victimized people were intersection the tracks by walking in the wake of getting off an alternate prepare in frenzy emulating rumours that a blaze was dashing through the carriages. "The travelers of the Alleppey-Dhanbad Express train pulled the (crisis) bind and got. The Raigarh-Vijaywada prepare running on the other line ran over them," route agent J.p. Mishra told an Indian Tv station. Most nearby media reports put the amount of dead at eight, however the Ndtv news system said the same amount as 10 individuals had been slaughtered. Neighborhood authorities were not instantly accessible for remark. Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy guaranteed the harmed might get the best medicinal medicine, while offering his sympathies. India's run down route framework has a famously terrible record, with several mischances reported yearly. In 2012 an administration report said that just about 15,000 individuals were murdered each year on India's tracks. It described the deaths as an annual “massacre” due to poor safety standards.