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Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Two train accidents in India



A day after the Railway ’s put the death toll in the Howrah-Chennai Coromandel Express accident . At least 15 people were killed and more than 140 injured when the Coramandal Superfast Express from Howrah to Chennai derailed on Friday night at about 20:00 PM IST as it was about to enter the Jajpur Road station in Orissa.
Many people are feared to be trapped in the wreckage of 14 carriages of the Cormandel Express, which was carrying up to 1500 passengers when it crashed, Murlidhar Sahoo, the cause of the accident was not immediately known. The accident happened near the town of Jajpur, 100km north of the city of Bhubaneswar.
And second train accident happened at the Sugauli railway station in Bihar. At least 15 passengers were injured when the Gorakhpur-Muzaffarpur train collided head-on with an engine being shunted at the Sugauli railway station in Bihar’s East Champaran district early on Saturday morning.
The accident occurred around 5.30 AM IST when the train, which was about to halt, hit the engine being shunted to the rear of the Raxaul-Sugauli passenger train at the Sugauli railway station.

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