Driver blamed for Indian train crash, nine dead | Bangkok Post: breakingnews

Indian railway officials blamed driver error for a late-night collision between two packed passenger trains that killed nine people and injured more than 80.

Indian Railway officials, security personnel and onlookers gather around the wreckage of train carriages at Arakkonam, some 90 km west of Chennai, on September 14. Tuesday's crash saw a speeding train ram into a stationary one at a station near Arakkonam, in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, killing nine people and injured more than 80.

Tuesday's crash saw a speeding train ram into a stationary one at a station near Arakkonam, about 55 miles (90 kilometres) from Chennai, in the southern state of Tamil Nadu.