Indian Train Fire Kills 47, Injures 25 Others

Railway personnel and military officials inspect the site of a burning coach of a passenger train at Nellor nearly 500 kilometers from Hyderabad, India, July 30, 2012. At least 47 people have been charred to death and 25 others sustained burn injuries in a major fire that broke out in one of the coaches of an express train in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh in the early hours of Monday, a senior police official said. <Xinhua>

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