Chaos Thy Name is India : 5 Dead and 50 Injured in Multiple Train Accidents
Muhammad Javed Iqbal
Five dead, 50 injured in train accidents in India Five dead, 50
injured in train accidents in India LUCKNOW: At least five people were
killed and 50 others injured when four express trains collided in
separate incidents in the fog-bound northern Indian state of Uttar
Pradesh on Saturday, police and railway officials said.
In the first incident, an inter-city express rammed into the back of a
stationary passenger train near the town of Sarai Bhupat, 250
kilometres southwest of the state capital Lucknow.
Additional police director general Brij Lal said at least 10
passengers were injured.
Four people died in the second accident 45 minutes later when two
other expresses collided in similar fashion, some 80 kilometres
southwest of Lucknow, Lal said.
“At least 35 others were injured in the impact which damaged four
carriages,” Lal told AFP.
Senior railways official M.N. Srivastava said the impact in both cases
had been minimised by the fact that the trains were travelling at low
speeds because of the dense fog.
Visibility at both accident sites was down to around 30 metres.
An estimated 2,000 passengers, mostly returning from year-end
vacations, were travelling in the four trains. —AFP
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> Chaos Thy Name is India : 5 Dead and 50 Injured in Multiple Train Accidents
Indians seems to have got off very lightly. In Muhammad Javed Zball's
Pakistan, a single volleyball game can force a 100 Pakistanis to rush
to Paradise. Allah must have bee asleep at the time of those train
mishaps in India.