20 Killed, Over 100 Injured As Kalka Mail Derails In UP

At least 20 people have been killed and over 100 injured in Delhi-bound Kalk Mail, 13 bogies derailed near the Howrah station in Malwa.

The accident happened this afternoon in eastern Malwa station cabin, about 120 km from state capital Lucknow.

"Twenty bodies are back ... it is not surprising if more than 50 people killed as many bodies are still trapped in the distorted condition of the coaches," General Directorate of Police Brij Lal said the special.

He said the buses were cut with gas cutters and more than 200 police officers were carrying out rescue operations.

Lal said the Chief Inspector Javed Akhtar was the supervision of the facility, but the head of the Railway Board in Delhi Vinay Mittal was on his way.

The army was also moving about 120 soldiers to adjoining Allahabad and Kanpur for rescue operations after the army chief told the Chairman Railway Board.

Derailed coaches including AC coaches, four, five sleeper coaches and two general bogies.

"13 bogies of the Delhi-Howrah train to be derailed, 10 of which are in very poor condition. The exact cause of the derailment is not yet possible to determine, because we are busy in rescue operations," managing director of North Central Railway HC Joshi said.

He said that high-level probe ordered into the incident.

Save two trains - one each in Kanpur and Allahabad - have rushed to the spot where the gas cutters and other equipment used in the pull out trapped passengers.

More than 100 people are believed to be trapped in the coaches and the efforts to rescue them, said railway officials.

The train was bound for the cup, and drove 105 km an hour when it went to the train station in Malwa Fatehpur district, about 150 km from here.

According to a senior development manager of North Central Railway Pradeep Ojha: "Relief efforts are in full swing and people are engaged in gas welding cutting AC coaches to bring out the survivors."

Minister of State for Railways Mukul Roy announced Rs five lakh ex-gratia to the next kin of the dead, Rs one lakh to those who sustained serious injuries and Rs 25,000 victims who have suffered minor injuries.

The accident has disrupted rail traffic on Delhi-Howrah main.

20 Killed, Over 100 Injured As Kalka Mail Derails In UP

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100 Up Passenger Injured in Assam Train Bomb

Guwahati, July 10 ,At least 100 people were injured, 20 of them critically, when a powerful bomb ripped apart a passenger train late Sunday in the Indian state of Assam, has officials in the troubled North said.No militant group claimed the attack yet.

The police spokesman said the explosion occurred while the Puri Guwahati-Assam Express was almost Ghograpara western distict from Nalbari, about 70 km from the main city of Guwahati Assam. The explosion took place on 08/30 pm.Four coaches of the train derailed trapping many passengers, many of them seriously injured. "Flexible cords and other materials that can be triggered by the explosion were recovered from the scene," a senior police officer said.

The train was bound for Puri in Orissa. "It was a pick and there was an explosion shortly after the chaos. The bus I was traveling in skidded and fell to the track, boggy ground or waist-deep water. Or another way, we managed to get out of the bus," jiten Das, a passenger, who was among the injured, told IANS phone. "Cuts I sustained my head and chest injuries after his hand."

The four coaches derailed bogies and one slipped and went at least 20 meters from the track, "Dhanmoni Das, a local who had helped train many of the wounded, told IANS." We have rescued over 100 people and helped them reach the nearest hospital with bicycles, motorcycles and private cars, "said Rubul Ali, another local who helped rescue operation.The critically injured were shifted to Guwahati Medical College Hospital." All the teams provided medical care to warn doctors and nurses treat the injured passengers, "Health Minister Himanta Biswas Sarma told IANS.

Rescue trains doctors and nurses have now banned United Liberation Front of accident site.Both of Asoma (ULFA) and National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB), active region.Meanwhile, all incoming and outgoing trains were suspended after an explosion in Assam. "Until we create a movement of the trains had stopped to repair," the railway official said.The accident comes on the 14th day speeding carriages derailed Kalk Mail, Uttar Pradesh, killing around 35 people and leaving at least 150 were injured.

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