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Three compartments of Visakhapatnam-Rayagada passenger derailed
As per the primary information, Visakhapatnam -Rayagada passenger train met with an accident. Three compartments have been derailed and two more...
As per the primary information, Visakhapatnam -Rayagada passenger train met with an accident. Three compartments have been derailed and two more bogies are also damaged at Kantakapalli railway station of Vizianagaram district few minutes ago. The life loss and other details are yet to be known
As per the source, the passenger train rushing towards Visakhapatnam -Rayagada hits the Visakhapatnam - Palasa passenger from the rear side. Due to signal failure, the both trains are allowed to run on the same line at the same time.
The railway rescue teams and local police have been alerted and they rushed to the spot Due to power interruption at the railway station , the rescue operations are not yet initiated as of now and there is no proper information about either the injured or casualties..
There was a rear collision of trains of 08532 Visakhapatnam-Palasa passenger with 08504 Visakhapatnam-Ragada where 3 coaches were involved and about 10 persons were injured. DRM Shri Saurabh Prasad reached site and rescue operations are in full swing. Local administration and NDRF were informed for assistance and ambulances , Accident relief trains reached site.
Vizianagaram district administration has established a call center at collector office to get the information regarding the accident. The kins of the passengers can call 9493589157 and 8978080006 to get updates on that accident.
Soon after getting the information regarding the train mishap, minister for education Botcha Satyanarayana rushed to the spot along with police officials, rescue teams and ambulances supervised the rescue operations there. He instructed the officials to recover the injured from the compartments and shift them to the hospitals for medical assistance. He said that the government would extend its utmost support to the passengers who are affected in this incident.
Collector S.Nagalakshmi said that eight passengers have been killed in the gruesome accident occured at Kantakapalli railway station of Vizianagaram district. As of now the rescue teams have noticed that eight passengers are died and 32 are injured. The injured are shifted to Visakhapatnam and Vizianagaram district hospitals. Collector and SP M.Deepika and other officials reached the spot and supervising the rescue operations.
