3 killed as goods train derails in Odisha, wagons ram into platform

3 killed as goods train derails in Odisha, wagons ram into platform
# 21 November 2022 10:37 (UTC +04:00)

A goods train derailed at Korai railway station in Odisha's Jajpur district on Monday morning, with wagons ramming into waiting passengers, killing at least three of them and injuring seven others, officials said, APA reports citing NDTV.

East Coast Railway (ECoR) officials said that the accident took place around 6.44 am when some people were waiting at the platform for a passenger train.

Station staffers said that the loco pilot of the empty goods train moving from Dongoaposi to Chhatrapur applied sudden brakes, causing eight wagons to derail and plough into the passengers on the platform and the waiting hall.

Jajpur Additional District Magistrate Akshay Kumar Mallick, who is monitoring the rescue operation, said that some derailed wagons climbed the foot-over-bridge and fell on the waiting hall and ticket counter.

He said that two women are among the three victims.

The two women were mother and daughter while a two-and-half-year-old child with them miraculously survived, the man who lost his wife and daughter said.

A senior police officer said that they suspect that more people might be trapped underneath the debris. The number of fatalities may go up as some people have been seriously injured, Railway officials said, adding that the station building was damaged in the accident.

In videos that have gone viral on social media, derailed wagons were seen strewn across both platforms with axles lying on the railway tracks.

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