Seven coaches and the engine of the Jagdalpur-Bhubaneswar express derailed at 11.00pm local time on Saturday (1.30am Singapore time Sunday) near Kuneru
railway station in the Vizianagram district of Andhra Pradesh state.
"Thirteen people are confirmed dead and scores are injured Adidas Yeezy Boost 350 UK ," J. P. Mishra, a spokesman for East Coast Railways told AFP. "The injured have been shifted to two nearby hospitals," he said.
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The train was travelling from Jagdalpur city to l Bhubaneswar, the capital of Odisha state, when it came off the track Adidas Ultra Boost Womens UK , nearly 160 kilometres from Visakhapatnam, the nearest city to the accident site. Rail traffic on the coast line has been
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The incident comes nearly two months after 146 people were killed when a passenger train was derailed in Kanpur, northern India.
Last month two people were killed and dozens injured after another train derailed also near Kanpur Adidas Ultra Boost UK , Uttar Pradesh state.
India's railway network is still the main form of long-distance travel in the vast country, but it is poorly funded and deadly accidents occur relatively
frequently.
In 2014, an express train ploughed into a stationary freight train Adidas Ultra Boost Laceless UK , also in Uttar Pradesh, killing 26 people.
A 2012 government report said almost 15,000 people were killed every year on India's railways and described the loss of life as an annual "massacre".
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government has pledged to invest US$137 billion over five years to modernise its crumbling railways Adidas Ultra Boost Clima UK , making them safer, faster and more efficient.
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fascinating Hellenistic ruins.
The capital of the Island is Thassos Town which is on the northeast coast and is the main port for the Island. It was
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Egypt and Persia. The ruins of this ancient City is scattered around the modern
settlement and it is easy to spend a few hours strolling around gazing at these
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hours even if it is just to get away from the sun!
Most visitors to the Island leave Thassos Town fairly quickly to make their way to the coast and the
transport network links the Town with pretty much every Village on the Island.
The East coast of the Island has some lovely beaches and some attractive and
traditional Aegean villages. Panagia and Potamia are favourites of visitors to
Thassos and their hillside setting offer wonderful views over the Island and the
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across from the easily accessible cliffs are magnificent and there is also a
small archaeological site nearby too.
The Western coast of Thassos is probably busier than the Eastern coast with more package tours discovering the
area every year. The Beaches along this coast are more exposed and consist
mostly of pebbles rather than sandy as on the opposite side of the Island. There
are a few splendid Villages along the coastline and all of them have wonderful
stepped cobblestone streets and stone houses. A couple of these such as Skala
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which can get quite crowded in the summer. Around 15 kilometres from the town is
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