36 killed in train accident

By Sarabjit Pandher

JEONPURA (FATEHGARH SAHIB), DEC. 2. At least 36 passengers were killed and 140 injured, many seriously, when the Amritsar-bound Howrah Mail crashed into overturned wagons of an Assam-bound goods train near this village in Fatehgarh Sahib district early today. (According to PTI, the toll is 40.) Four coaches of the Howrah Mail and six wagons of the goods train, carrying milled rice from Ajitwal in Moga district to New Bongaigaon in Assam, were involved in the accident.

Maximum casualties were reported from three unreserved coaches of the Howrah Mail, which were reduced to mangled pieces of metal.

Relief and rescue operations were launched by the police and railway authorities with help from the locals.

The Commissioner of Railway Safety, Mr. G.P. Garg, would conduct an enquiry. He would record evidence at the site on Tuesday. The Railways has ruled out sabotage.

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