Passenger train derails in Kashmir, no casualty reported
Railway officials have reached the spot and as per reports, there was no causality so far.
The probe into the Indore-Patna Express
derailment, that has claimed at least 146 lives, began on Monday with Commissioner
of Railway Safety P K Acharya visiting the accident site and inspecting the
broken track and the mangled bogies.
“The commissioner of railway safety (eastern circle) reached the accident
site here and closely inspected the broken railway track and the damaged
coaches,” Deputy General Manager North Central Railway (NCR) Amit Mishra said.
The entire inspection as well as the accident site was videographed. Railway
engineers and technical staff were asked questioned in connection with the
derailment by the railway safety commissioner, he said.
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Mishra said people who were travelling in the train and have any information
with regard to the accident, can share it with Acharya. He will be available at
the Kanpur Railway Station from morning till evening on November 22 and 23 and
will use the inputs while preparing the investigation report.
Acharya’s visit to the site comes a day after Deputy Chief Safety Officer,
Allahabad, Ram Surat Singh, wrote to the NCR about a “statutory
enquiry” by the railway safety commissioner regarding the accident that
took place between Pukhrayan-Malsa stations.
The letter, while seeking necessary logistics arrangement for the probe, said
the inquiry will be held at the office of the deputy chief traffic manager
(CTM), Kanpur Central Railway station on November 22 and 23.
Earlier in the day, Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu told Lok Sabha that a
statutory inquiry by the commissioner of railway safety has been ordered to
find the cause of the accident as he promised “strictest possible
action” against the guilty. He also said latest technical and forensic
analysis will be used for a thorough investigation.
14 coaches of Indore-Patna Express derailed in Kanpur Dehat in the wee hours
on Sunday due to suspected rail fracture.
The commissioner of railway safety comes under the Ministry of Civil Aviation.
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