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Train fire: 3 suspended

Ludhiana May 18. Three railway employees, a conductor and two travelling ticket examiners, who were on duty in the three coaches of the Frontier Mail which caught fire on Thursday killing 38 passengers, were suspended today.

Conductor, Sudhir Prakash and TTEs, Ajit Kumar and Jasbir Singh, were suspended with immediate effect pending an inquiry by the authorities following allegations by passengers that they were not in the coaches at the time of the incident, railway sources said.

PTI

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