--- description: The death toll from a rail disaster in southern India's Andhra Pradesh on Saturday night has risen to 41 people. title: Death Toll in India Train Crash Rises To 41 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt090224faf6d28075/6988b6bdcf40a86071c4628c/gettyimages-632358970.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Investigation Into India Train Crash Launched as Death Toll Rises to 41 by [Joseph Hincks](/author/joseph-hincks/) ## Joseph Hincks Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 23, 2017 9:34 AM CUT  Rescue workers look for survivors at the site of the derailment of the Jagdalpur-Bhubaneswar express train near Kuneru station in southern Andhra Pradesh state on Jan. 22, 2017. Rescue workers look for survivors at the site of the derailment of the Jagdalpur-Bhubaneswar express train near Kuneru station in southern Andhra Pradesh state on Jan. 22, 2017.Stringer—AFP/Getty Images by [Joseph Hincks](/author/joseph-hincks/) ## Joseph Hincks Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 23, 2017 9:34 AM CUT The death toll from a rail disaster in southern India’s Andhra Pradesh state on Saturday has [risen to 41 people](http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/nia-cid-teams-visits-hirakhand-train-accident-site-number-of-dead-rises-to-41-1651678 "undefined"), with rescuers pulling survivors from the wreckage throughout Sunday. Officials on Monday had reached the site of the crash and were investigating why eight coaches and the engine of the Jagdalpur-Bhubaneswar express derailed, injuring 68 people, NDTV reports. There were 600 passengers on board. [According](https://www.yahoo.com/news/27-killed-latest-india-rail-disaster-045415010.html "undefined") to Agence France-Presse, one possible line of inquiry is whether Maoist rebels, who are active in the area, tampered with the tracks. “It is being looked into, it is one of the many angles we are looking into,” national railway spokesperson Anil Kumar Saxena said. “There is some suspicion (of sabotage) because two other trains had crossed over smoothly using the same tracks earlier in the night.” However, police in neighboring Odisha state, the train’s destination, reportedly moved to quash the suggestion. The Press Trust of India quoted an unidentified senior intelligence officer as saying, “We totally reject any possibility of Maoist involvement in the derailment.” “Kuneru is not a Naxal-hit area,” the officer reportedly added, using a local term for communist guerrillas. Saturday’s crash is the latest in a succession of deadly derailments along India’s sprawling rail network. A similar disaster in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh killed 146 people in November. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4642945/india-train-crash-andhra-pradesh/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4642945/india-train-crash-andhra-pradesh/"},"headline":"Investigation Into India Train Crash Launched as Death Toll Rises to 41","datePublished":"2017-01-23T09:34:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T02:52:03.147Z","description":"The crash is the latest in a succession of deadly derailments along India's sprawling rail network","url":"https://time.com/4642945/india-train-crash-andhra-pradesh/","keywords":["India","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt090224faf6d28075/6988b6bdcf40a86071c4628c/gettyimages-632358970.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Joseph Hincks","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/joseph-hincks/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt090224faf6d28075/6988b6bdcf40a86071c4628c/gettyimages-632358970.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"INDIA-TRAIN-ACCIDENT","caption":"INDIA-TRAIN-ACCIDENT","creditText":"Stringer—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4642945/india-train-crash-andhra-pradesh/","name":"Investigation Into India Train Crash Launched as Death Toll Rises to 41"}}]}] ```