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Train blown off tracks, two killed

Nagpur, May 15 Two people were killed and 70 others injured when all the ten coaches of the stationary Jabalpur-Nagpur passenger train were blown off the tracks during a severe storm in the Nainpur-Kevalari section of the South Eastern Railway this evening

The accident occurred between Nainpur and Kevalari stations towards Chhindwada, about 260 km from here at around 1730 hrs this evening. While one unidentified person aged around 45 years died of injuries at the Kevalari hospital, another person Vinod Kohar died at the Sheoni hospital.

Nagpur Additional Divisional Railway Manager Neeraj Jain said that passengers and doctors at the Kevalari hospital had reported that all the coaches were blown off the tracks when the train had come to a halt amid a severe cyclone. However the engine remained on the tracks.

Mr Jain said the small coaches in the narrow gauge section could have been blown off the tracks due to excess pressure created since all the windows were closed due to the cyclone.

The injured are being treated at the Community Health Centre at Kevalari. Divisional Railway Manager of South Eastern Railway at Nagpur Ashok Goyal and other senior officials have left for the spot.

- UNI

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