Rescue workers search for survivors after a passenger train derailed near Kuneru village in Vizianagaram district, in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, India, January 22, 2017. REUTERS/Stringer
BHUBANESWAR/MUMBAI, India (Reuters) - At least 39 people were killed and 50 injured on Saturday night when nine coaches of a passenger train derailed in eastern India in the latest disaster to hit the vast and accident-prone state railways, police said.
The Hirakhand express train from Jagdalpur to Bhubaneswar derailed at about 11:20 pm near Kuneri station, in the state of Andhra Pradesh, about 30 km (18 miles) from the town of Rayagada.
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