The Chief Minister will call on the injured survivors of the accident which occurred on the Howrah-Chennai line on Sunday evening. Several survivors are undergoing treatment at Vizianagaram Government General Hospital.
Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury slammed the Central government on Andhra Pradesh's train accident and alleged that anti-collision devices meant to prevent these kinds of accidents were not used
While uploading a post on social media platform X, Lalu Prasad Yadav asked who will take the responsibility of frequent train accidents in the country.
The collisions involved two passenger trains and a goods train. At least 14 passengers were killed and over 50 injured in Sundays collision between Visakhapatnam-Palasa passenger and Visakhapatnam-Rayagada passenger near Kantakapalli junction in Kothavalasa mandal (block).
Officials of the East Coast Railway (ECR) said that at around 7 pm on Sunday, the Palasa passenger train hit the Rayagada passenger train from behind at Kantakapalli, about 40 Km from here, causing three coaches to derail.
YS Jagan Mohan Reddy inaugurated the college in Vizianagaram personally and the remaining four in Machilipatanam, Nandyala, Eluru, and Rajamundry virtually.
Due to Pre Non-Inter locking Works between Makudi-Sirpur-Sripur Kagaz Nagar- stations for commissioning of the third line in Secunderabad Division of South Central Railway, several trains will be diverted.
Train No. 07069 Secunderabad-Srikakulam Road special train will leave Secunderabad on August 14 Monday at 19.30hrs to reach Srikakulam Road at 12.30 hrs.
The TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu alleged that by filing false cases against the TDP cadre, Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy was trying to get benefits in the coming election. He dared the state government to reply to the questions raised by the leaders of the Opposition parties.
Locals are suspecting that the main cause of the accident was a short circuit at the electricity transformer near these two shops, which caused the fire in the adjacent Kusumanchi cloth shop and Shanti Vijay cloth shop.