Eleven killed after passengers fleeing rumours of fire were hit by another train

At slightest 11 radical person been killed and 5 injured aft they fled rumours of a occurrence connected committee their bid successful India, lone to beryllium deed by different train.

Railway officials said the passengers got down from the Mumbai-bound bid successful occidental Maharashtra authorities aft idiosyncratic pulled the exigency cord, causing it to stop.

They were deed by a bid connected an adjacent track. It was not instantly wide whether determination had really been a fire.

India has launched a $30m (£24bn) programme to modernise its railways successful caller years but this has been marred by a bid of accidents, including a large three-train clang successful 2023 successful the authorities of Odisha which near astir 300 radical dead.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said successful a station connected X that helium was "deeply saddened by the tragic nonaccomplishment of lives" during the incidental adjacent Pachora successful Jalgaon district, astir 400km from Mumbai, India's fiscal capital.

He said 8 ambulances had been dispatched and hospitals were connected standby.

The clang volition beryllium seen arsenic a setback for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has called for modernisation of the railways to boost the system and connectivity.

There are plans to boost spending connected the programme successful adjacent month's budget, Reuters quality bureau reports.