Tag: Train Mishap

The SCR has also announced cancellation of four trains from June 7 to June 13 due to operational reasons.

The minor boy, identified as Ramananda Paswani, along with three others from Nepal was travelling on Coromandel Express when the tragic mishap took place claiming 288 lives. While the three companions of Ramananda died in the mishap, he miraculously escaped with injuries. 

Reports suggest several people have made futile and fraudulent attempts to claim the compensation prompting the Odisha government to sound an alarm.

So far the official death toll in the tragic train accident at Bahanaga Bazaar Station in Balasore stands at 288, Odisha Chief Secretary Pradeep Jena informed on Tuesday.

Mamata who reached Cuttack and met the injured at the SCB medical college and hospital on Tuesday said, “Truth must not be suppressed as several lives have been lost. It is not a time to argue. We want to help people…”

SE Railways CPRO Aditya Kumar Chaudhary says all evidences safe for probe into train disaster in Odisha.

Four persons including two sisters who have come all way from Nepal are doing rounds of hospitals in Bhubaneswar hunting for the bodies of their relatives. 

The Express was running at a speed of 128 kmph speed on the main line and it was supposed to go straight as a goods train was already on the loop line. So, there was no question of the Coromandel Express taking the loop line. 

In a letter, Hari Shankar Verma, the principal chief operations manager of South Western Railway had mentioned that electronic signals maintainer apparently bypassed the electronic interlocking system at Hosadurga station which could lead to a collision of Sampark Kranti train with the goods train.

“There was green signal on the main line. The signal is usually green when all the pre-conditions required for the signal to go green are perfect. If any of the pre-conditions does not meet, technically the signal can never turn green," said Khordha DRM.

The BJP leader also said that he will wait for some days and then take necessary action to ensure that CBI includes this call leaking episode in its ambit of investigation into the Balasore train mishap that left nearly 300 people dead, including many from West Bengal.

The ministry had earlier ruled out driver error or a malfunction in the interlocking system, and said that all angles are being probed extensively to come to the exact conclusion how this happened.

AIIMS Bhubaneswar has received 123 dead bodies and already 43 bodies have been handed over to the next of their kin after following necessary protocol and identification.

Addressing a press conference at the Congress Bhawan in Bhubaneswar, Patnaik said, “The UPA government in 2012 had introduced anti-collision device.

As per sources, the loco pilot of the Coromandel Express, Gunanidhi Mohanty stated that the signal was green, not red when he entered the loop line and the train was within the permissible speed limit.