Bengaluru/Chennai/Kochi, Feb 13: 3 passengers were feared dead and twenty five injured once eight coaches of the Bengaluru-Erankulam inter-city express derailed on the city’s outskirts early Fri, an official aforesaid.
“The incident occurred at 7.35 a.m. once the engine and eight bogies of the express train jumped the track and derailed once it left Anekal station (near Bengaluru) towards Hosur (in Tamil Nadu) on the inter-state border,” a railway official told here.
The train departed from the most town station at 6.15 a.m. and coated thirty five km once the mishap happened between the Karnataka-Tamil Nadu come close the Bengaluru-Salem section between Anekal road and Hosur city.
“Rescue and relief groups have rush to the spot beside senior officers to shift the separated to private and state-run hospitals at Anekal and Hosur, as dozen of them are according to be in serious condition,” the official noted.
Railway officers failed to grasp the reason for the mishap even 2 hours once the mishap, as their priority was to rescue the separated and supply relief to the stranded passengers.
“An skilled team has rush to the spot to seek out out what caused the mishap as 2 bogies short into one another on impact,” the official added .
The South Western Railway (SWR) has created facilitate desks at town station and also the mishap spot to help the separated and the stranded passengers.
