Deadly Train Collision in India
Monday, September 20th, 2010
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The death toll remained uncertain. Railway officials said 13 people were killed and 15 injured in the crash. But the top administrative official of Mathura, where the collision occurred, put the number of dead at 21, with about as many injured. The Goa Express slammed into the stationary Mewar Express apparently because the driver overshot a signal to stop, said Anant Swaroop, spokesman for India’s northern railway.
Indian Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee ordered an inquiry into the crash, according to CNN’s sister station in India, CNN-IBN. The Goa Express, bound for New Delhi from the western coastal state of Goa, was running on the same track as the Mewar, which shuttles between New Delhi and Udaipur, in western Rajasthanstate. Both trains have stops in Mathura, about 90 miles south of New Delhi.
