Raigad: An engine and four bogies of a passenger train derailed on Konkan Railway route in Maharashtra’s Raigad district on Sunday, killing seventeen people were killed and 120 injured.
According to Raigad police control room, 17 passengers were killed and around 120 injured in the mishap which occurred in a remote area. However, a Railway spokesman in New Delhi put the number of those killed at 13.
The death toll rose as more bodies and injured persons were found trapped when the overturned bogies were being removed, a police official said. Rescue operations were underway, police said.
Following the mishap, services on Konkan Railway route were suspended. According to railway authorities, some trains were diverted via Panvel-Lonavala-Pune-Miraj-Londa-Madgaon and a few cancelled.
A goods train had derailed last month on the route, affecting services.
