Meerut-Lucknow Rajya Rani Express Faced Catastrophic Derailment

This was quite unfortunate for Saturday morning news. Eight coaches from Meerut-Lucknow Rajya Rani Express dismayed during the morning time.

The unfortunate incident happened between Rampur and Mundapanda which is a bridge on Koshi river.

So far, no any deformities have been found but more inspection is needed.

Below we have detailed updates of the incident:

  • Spokesperson from northern railway have mentioned that two passengers got injured and there are no any causalities in this accident. Prior to this, they had mentioned the injury of 10 people.
  • New UP chief minister Adityanath Yogi has declared the compensation of Rs. 50,000 to seriously impaired people. There are 25,000 people who are passengers who are suffering from small injuries.
  • The accident spot has the team of NDRF working there along with police officials and railways.
  • DRM (Moradabad Divisional Railway Manager), also went to the spot for rescue and relief opearations.
  • Since, the route is a double line route, railway wants the road traffic to normalize.
  • Helpline number for accident victims and families who were involved in this accident is 0121-6401215
  • Suresh Prabhu the railway minister tweeted, “Personally monitoring situation.Directed senior officers to rush to the spot.Ensure speedy relief and rescue operations”. They have assured that, they have set up a strict enquiry regarding this accident incident and if found any defaults, they will not leave anything untouched to resolve this.
  • They have organized a train for rescue. So far, there are no immense injuries reported as mentioned by Neeraj Sharma, CPRO, Northern Railways.
  • There has been huge delay in the trains due to this derailment.
  • Ministry of railways have assured that, there have been no reported injuries so far.

During last November, 142 people got killed with 200 injured people. During this, 14 coaches of Indore-Patna Express train had collapsed in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh.

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