On Saturday, at least nine people were murdered when a passenger was cooking tea in a burning train coach in southern India.
The train’s detached coach caught fire in the Madurai railway yard in Tamil Nadu, in the southern part of the country, around midnight.
A private tour company chartered the use of a single, parked bus. Madurai district spokesman Sali Thalapathi told AFP that someone was trying to make tea when the fire broke out.
There have been nine fatalities; three of the victims were female. The injuries sustained by the remaining nine are not considered to be life-threatening.
He also noted that none of the deceased had been positively identified.
The official death toll after the collapse of an Indian railway bridge is at least 17.
Huge flames could be seen bursting through the windows of the railway car in the footage.
A few people were able to get out of the burning bus.
According to allegations in the local media, the passengers were trying to utilise a gas cylinder that they had brought onto the plane illegally.
There have been many train disasters in India, which has one of the world’s largest rail networks. The worst of these occurred in 1981, when a train derailed on a bridge in the province of Bihar, falling 800 feet to its death in a river below.
