Saturday, November 9th, 2024

Accident after accident.. when will the railway wake up, four major train accidents so far this year, statistics are frightening

New Delhi: On Thursday afternoon, 10 coaches of Dibrugarh Express going from Chandigarh to Assam derailed in Gonda, UP. Four passengers died in this accident on Motiganj border of Gorakhpur railway section, while 20 more passengers were injured. This is the third and fourth rail accident of this year. On June 17, four bogies of Kanchenjunga Express going to Sealdah in Darjeeling, West Bengal, derailed after a collision with a goods train. 9 people died and more than 40 people were injured in the Kanchenjunga accident. After investigation into the collision of two trains near Rangapani station, it was found that the accident occurred due to fault in the signal and disturbance in the memo. Earlier on February 17, 2024, 10 coaches of a goods train derailed near Sarai Rohilla railway in Delhi. On June 2, 2024, two goods trains collided near Madhopur in Sirhind in Fatehgarh Sahib, Punjab. Two train drivers were injured in this collision.Last year, 293 people lost their lives in the Balasore accident
About a year ago, on June 2, 2023, there was a terrible train accident in Balasore, Odisha, in which 296 people were killed and more than 1200 people were injured. On October 29, 2023, two passenger trains collided. On October 29, 2023, the Rayagada passenger train hit the Visakhapatnam Palasa train from behind in Vijayanagaram, Andhra Pradesh. 14 passengers were killed and more than 50 passengers were injured in the collision of two passenger trains.

Rescue operations are underway by the police and railways. The injured have been evacuated. 2 people have died in this accident. 6 people are seriously injured and are being treated in the hospital. Apart from this, other people have suffered minor injuries. These coaches have been thoroughly checked, now no one is trapped here. The entire administration team, RTO, District Magistrate are present here. People have been sent safely in 3-4 buses from here, people are also being sent to the station or safe places through other buses.

Vineet Jaiswal

These railway accidents also happened in the last two years
Apart from this, on 26 August 2023, a train going from Lucknow to Rameswaram caught fire near Madurai railway station in Tamil Nadu. 10 people were burnt to death in this accident. Railways said that the fire was caused by a gas cylinder. On October 11, the coaches of North East Express going from Delhi to Kamakhya derailed near Raghunathpur station in Buxar, Bihar. 4 people died in this accident and more than 100 people were injured. On 13 January 2022, 12 coaches of Bikaner-Guwahati Express derailed in Alipurduar, West Bengal. 9 people were killed and 36 were injured in this rail accident.

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