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At least ten people were killed and over 20 were injured after a fire broke out in a tourist train parked near a railway station in Tamil Nadu, a state of India, in the early hours of Saturday.
“Around 5:30 am today, there was fire in a coach halted here at Madurai railway station. There were pilgrims travelling from Uttar Pradesh in it. When they lit the gas stove to make coffee, the gas cylinder blasted. As of now, we have retrieved nine bodies,” India-based news outlets said citing officials.
The railway authorities said that an "illegal gas cylinder" on board led to the fire. The passengers of the "private party coach" had reached Madurai railway station from Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh.
The fire broke out when a passenger lit a gas stove to make coffee, local police said.
Police, fire and rescue services personnel besides railway staff, involved in dousing the fire, extricated the charred bodies from the compartment.