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Massive Fire Breaks Out In Delhi-Darbhanga Express In UP's Etawah, Eight Injured, 3 Coaches Gutted

The station master stopped the train after he saw smoke in the S1 coach. All the passengers were taken out safely and no casualty has been reported.

New Delhi: A massive fire broke out in New Delhi-Darbhanga Express train (02570) near Etawah in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday, news agency ANI reported. The fire broke out when Darbhanga Clone Special (02570) was passing through Sarai Bhopat Railway station in Uttar Pradesh. The station master stopped the train after he saw smoke in the S1 coach. All the passengers were taken out safely and no casualty has been reported, the news agency reported.

According to report, the fire broke out in one sleeper coach but soon engulfed three more coaches. 

"The information was received that fire broke out in Delhi-Darbhanga express train near Sarai Bhopat railway station in its last four coaches. The fire has been extinguished. There is no casualty, eight passengers sustained minor injuries and were sent to the district hospital...The train has departed from here after several checks," Etawah DM Avnish Rai told ANI.

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"We somehow got out from the window of the coach when the fire broke out there. There were no proper means to extinguish the fire in the coach. Few people were injured while getting out of the coach," news agency PTI quoted one of the passengers as saying.

According to a report by India Today, there were more passengers on the train than its capacity.

Fire engines were rushed to the spot to douse the flames, PTI reported.

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