At least 25 people died when one coach of a moving train in Andra Pradesh state caught fire.
B. Sridha, district collector, said the train stopped after fire in one coach was noticed by an official at a railroad station on Monday.
He said the fire was believed to have been caused by a short circuit in the coach.
It has been extinguished and at least 22 injured people have been hospitalised.
The fire was reported at Nellore, a town nearly 500 kilometres south of Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh state.
Sridha says the rescue operation is continuing and the death toll is likely to rise.
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