At least two passengers were killed and 20 injured when 18 carriages of the Howrah-Mumbai passenger train derailed in the early hours near Jharkhand’s Charadharpur division.
According to railway officials, the incident occurred when a freight train derailed and crashed with the Howrah-Mumbai Mail, which was passing by from the opposite side. All injured passengers were taken to the Tata Main Hospital in Jamshedpur.
Following the incident, the Indian Railways cancelled five trains including Howrah-Titalgarh-Kantabanji Express, Kharagpur-Jhargram-Dhanbad Express, Howrah-Barbil-Howrah Jan Shatabdi Express, Tatanagar-Itwari Express and LTT-Express.
It also issued helpline numbers in Maharashtra – Mumbai helpline: 022-22694040; Nagpur helpline number: 7757912790; Bhusawal helpline number: 08799982712.
Earlier on July 18, at least four people were killed and around 20 people had sustained injuries after several bogies of the Dibrugarh Express derailed in Uttar Pradesh’s Gonda.
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee questioned the Centre, saying, “This series of nightmares almost every week, this unending procession of deaths and injuries on railway tracks: for how long shall we tolerate this?”
Indian Railways announced ₹10 lakh ex gratia for kin of each killed and ₹5 lakh for those with major injuries.
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