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Passenger train derails in India, 77 dead
(AP)
Updated: 2005-10-29 15:30
VELIGONDA, India - A passenger train plunged into a
rain-swollen river in southern India early Saturday, killing at least 77 people,
officials said.
Rescue workers pulled around 100 injured passengers from
seven coaches that derailed after floods washed away the tracks in the town of
Veligonda in Andhra Pradesh state.
Scores more passengers remain trapped in water-logged coaches as soldiers and
local villagers used gas cutters to open up the coaches.
"So far 77 bodies have been recovered," said Thomas Verghese, general manager
of India's southern railway.
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