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Hyderabad, October 29.
A passenger train derailed after the track gave way due to incessant
rains in the early hours of today, killing around 150 persons and
injuring many more.
Most of the passengers were asleep when the engine and seven coaches of
the Repalle-Secunderabad Delta Fast passenger train derailed around 4 am
after the track was washed away by flash floods caused by heavy rain in
the area.
The tragedy occurred between Ramannapet and Valligonda railway stations,
near Nalgonda, around 70 km from Hyderabad.
Andhra Pradesh Home Minister K. Jana Reddy, speaking to reporters at the
scene of the accident, said while 100 bodies had been retrieved, another
20 to 30 could have been trapped inside the coaches.
The GCP prediction was for an hour before to four hours after the crash.
Various times for the crash were reported; it was apparently
between 4 and 4:30 am.
We have specified the hypothesis test interval from
04:00 to 09:00 local, which is 21:30 UTC on the 28th to 02:30 29th.
The results show a sharp trend for the first three hours of this
period, but it drops during the last two hours, and the final Chi8square
is 18080.912 on 18000 df, for Z = 0.429 and p = 0.334. (Estimated
normalized Z is 0.408.)
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