Twenty people injured in third rail accident since yesterday
SRINAGAR: On Wednesday when a train from Qazigund to Srinagar derailed in Kulgam district, at least 20 people were injured in the accident.
According to officials, the engine and two bogies of the train derailed at Sedura village, 55 km from here, as the driver overshot the intended station stop by nearly 200 metres.
“All the injured persons were evacuated to a hospital,” a senior police official in Kulgam said.
To investigate the cause of the incident a team of Railway officials has rushed to the spot.
“We are heading to the scene of the accident. The cause of derailment will be known only after the investigations are complete,” Chief Area Manager, Northern Railways, Opender Singh said.
Preliminary investigations have found that there was some problem with the brakes of the train, said official sources.
The first train service was introduced in the Valley in October, 2008. It is the first such incident till that time.
But today’s mishap is the third railways accident since yesterday. Seven persons were killed when two coaches of the Doon Express caught fire in Jharkhand yesterday. In another incident on Wednesday when the Howrah-bound Koraput-Howrah Express collided with a goods train at Jharsuguda Station in Odisha left four passengers were injured.
