Atleast 47 people have been killed in a fire on a passenger train travelling in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh officials say. One coach of the Tamil Nadu Express from Delhi to Chennai caught fire as it was passing through Nellore station early on Monday.
The cause of the blaze is still unclear, but authorities suspect an electrical short circuit.Accidents are common on India's immense state-owned rail network.
In May, 24 people were killed when a passenger train crashed into a goods train, also in Andhra Pradesh state.
Most of the passengers were asleep when the fire broke out at 04:20 local time (22:50 GMT), said B Sridhar, head of Nellore's district administration.
Some of them managed to jump off the moving train before it came to a halt, but 28 passengers in the coach were injured and taken to local hospitals.The town of Nellore is about 500km (310 miles) south of Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh's district capital.
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