At least 12 people were killed and 11 people injured in India on Wednesday evening after they stepped off a train and were hit by another one while on the tracks, the local authorities said.

       The passengers had disembarked after rumors of a fire on their train spread panic among those onboard, the authorities said.

       The accident happened around 5 p.m. in Maharashtra State, about 170 miles northeast of Mumbai, said Ashok Pawar, a police inspector at the Pachora police station. The passengers were aboard the Pushpak Express, a train traveling from Lucknow, in northern India, to Mumbai in the west, when word spread onboard of a fire, he said.

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