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23 killed, over 100 hurt in UP train derailment

Last Updated 19 August 2017, 20:14 IST

At least 23 people were feared killed and over 100 others, including women and children, were injured, when Haridwar-bound Kalinga Utkal Express train derailed in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar district, about 500 kilometres from here, on Saturday.

Eye witness accounts claimed that the number of dead was more and said that many people were still trapped inside the badly mangled coaches of the train. The number of injured was put at over 100. The death toll could go up as many of the injured were said to be in critical condition.

Additional director general of UP Police, law and order, Anand Kumar told reporters here that a large number of passengers were injured in the mishap.

Union minister Sanjiv Baliyan, who hailed from Muzaffarnagar, said  that he had seen many dead inside the coaches.

Police sources here said that the mishap occurred near Khatauli railway station, which 22 kilometres from the district headquarters, around six in the evening. The train was scheduled to reach Haridwar, a pilgrimage town in Uttarakhand around nine in the evening.  Sources said that 10 coaches of the train, which was on its way to Haridwar in Uttarakhand from Puri in Odisha, derailed near the outer cabin near Khatauli. One of the coaches also rammed into the houses, which were close to the railway tracks.

 Officials said that medical teams had reached the spot from Meerut, Saharanpur and other nearby districts. Over 65 ambulances were pressed into service to ferry the injrued to the hospital.

The injured were admitted to the nearby hospitals in Meerut and Muzaffarnagar, the officials said adding that hospitals in the NCR region had been put on alert following the mishap. Some of the injured were stated to be in a cr itical condition.


 

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(Published 19 August 2017, 13:08 IST)

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