Lagatar24 Desk
Bankura, June 25: A train accident happened in the early hours of Sunday morning in Bankura, West Bengal. Here at Onda station, a goods train hit another standing goods train. After the collision, 12 coaches derailed. The collision was so severe that the wagons of the goods train got separated from the track and climbed on each other. The engine of the train has also overturned outside the track. The driver of the moving goods train was injured in this accident.
The goods train (BCN) overshot the red signal, didn’t stop and derailed with the BRN maintenance train, said a railway official, after two goods trains collided at Bankura’s Onda railway station.
The UP Mail Line and UP Loop Line have been repaired by the railways, and train traffic has resumed. So far, 11 trains have been cancelled.
“A goods train was standing in the loop line, and another train was supposed to stop at the signal, but it overshot the red signal, leading to derailment. Restoration work was completed around 7.30 a.m., and the first train has been moved from the site at around 8.30 a.m. As of now, 11 trains have been cancelled,” Aditya Kumar Chaudhary, CPRO South Eastern Railway said.
The incident happened only a few weeks after the terrible triple train crash in Balasore, Odisha, involving the Coromandel Express and two other trains, which resulted in at least 275 fatalities and 1,000 injuries.
