<p>Additional Director General of Police (Railway) A K Jain said 15 aspirants had died at Shahajahanpur while three succumbed to their injuries at Lucknow Medical College. Another aspirant died at Balamau near here. <br /><br />Over 50 others, who were injured after falling from the speeding Howrah-bound Jammu Tawi Himgiri Express, are undergoing treatment at different hospitals. <br /><br />The tragedy occurred when the aspirants were hit by a narrow foot overbridge at Hathaura railway station a few kilometres away from Shahajahanpur on the Moradabad-Lucknow section of the Northern Railway as the train sped past it.<br /><br />Thousands of agitated aspirants later torched two air-conditioned coaches of the train though there were no casualties among the passengers.<br /><br />Thousands of ITBP candidates, on their way back home, had boarded the trains and a large number of them had climbed on to the roof top after failing to get inside the overcrowded coaches.The candidates alleged that they were forced to travel on the rooftop by the security personnel.<br /><br />The Centre and the UP government were embroiled in a war of words over the tragedy with each holding the other responsible for the incident. <br /><br />The state government said that it had no in formation about the ITBP recruitment rally and attributed the tragedy to ITBP’s mismanagement, while the Centre claimed that the ITBP officials had informed the Bareilly district authorities well in advance.</p>
<p>Additional Director General of Police (Railway) A K Jain said 15 aspirants had died at Shahajahanpur while three succumbed to their injuries at Lucknow Medical College. Another aspirant died at Balamau near here. <br /><br />Over 50 others, who were injured after falling from the speeding Howrah-bound Jammu Tawi Himgiri Express, are undergoing treatment at different hospitals. <br /><br />The tragedy occurred when the aspirants were hit by a narrow foot overbridge at Hathaura railway station a few kilometres away from Shahajahanpur on the Moradabad-Lucknow section of the Northern Railway as the train sped past it.<br /><br />Thousands of agitated aspirants later torched two air-conditioned coaches of the train though there were no casualties among the passengers.<br /><br />Thousands of ITBP candidates, on their way back home, had boarded the trains and a large number of them had climbed on to the roof top after failing to get inside the overcrowded coaches.The candidates alleged that they were forced to travel on the rooftop by the security personnel.<br /><br />The Centre and the UP government were embroiled in a war of words over the tragedy with each holding the other responsible for the incident. <br /><br />The state government said that it had no in formation about the ITBP recruitment rally and attributed the tragedy to ITBP’s mismanagement, while the Centre claimed that the ITBP officials had informed the Bareilly district authorities well in advance.</p>
