Days After Odisha Tragedy, 20 Wagons Of Goods Train Derail In Assam's Kamrup

Four passenger trains in the Rangia-Lumding section were cancelled. However, express trains were not affected.

Locals gather after wagons of a goods train derailed at Singra railway station, in Kamrup district, Wednesday.

Source : PTI

New Delhi: Five days after the devastating train accident in Odisha that killed 288 people, a goods train derailed in Assam's Kamrup district on Wednesday, news agency PTI reported. According to a railway official, twenty wagons of the coal-laden train jumped tracks at Singra near Boko. However, no injury has been reported.

The derailed wagons were at the centre of the train which had a total of 60 wagons, the official said.

According to the report, the train was bringing coal to Tetelia in Kamrup Metropolitan district from Asansol in West Bengal. The cause of the derailment is yet to be ascertained and senior railway and police officials were camping at the spot.

In the wake of the incident, four passenger trains in the Rangia-Lumding section were cancelled. However, express trains were not affected as rail traffic in the section was lean and confined mostly to goods trains, the official said.

Restoration work is underway and the plying of trains is expected to resume soon, the official added. 

In another incident, four labourers were killed and several others injured after being run over by a goods train in Odisha's Jajpur earlier in the day, PTI reported. According to the report, the labourers had taken shelter from heavy rain under the goods train when it started rolling.

"There was a sudden thunderstorm. The labourers were working at a railway siding where a goods train was standing stationary. They sheltered under it but unfortunately, the goods train which did not have an engine attached to it started moving causing the accident," said a railway spokesperson.

Meanwhile, Coromandel Express undertook its first journey to Chennai from West Bengal’s Shalimar station on Wednesday. Other train services have resumed on the repaired tracks, and are running normally. "Services on both tracks have been restored. Normal train services on both lines have now been restored, 51 hours after the accident," said Union Minister for Railways Ashwini Vaishnaw.