<p>Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh: A 16-year-old boy has been apprehended for allegedly putting a fencing pillar on the Banda-Mahoba rail track, causing disruptions on Saturday, police said.</p>.<p>The driver of the passenger train had to apply emergency brakes to stop the train after he noticed a concrete pillar on the tracks, police said.</p>.<p>The incident occurred on Saturday afternoon when the driver of a passenger train informed the Railway Protection Force and police about the obstruction on the track, they said.</p>.<p>"Police team along with RPF reached the spot and detained a minor. The minor has confessed to placing the pillar on the track," Circle Officer (CO) of the area Deepak Dubey said.</p>.Two labourers die after being hit by train in Uttar Pradesh’s Amethi.<p>The rail traffic on the route was cleared shortly after the pillar was removed from the track, the officer said.</p>.<p>A similar incident occurred earlier in the day in Ballia.</p>.<p>A rail engine hit a stone placed on the railway track in the Bairia area on Saturday, officials said, adding that no damage was caused.</p>.<p>Public Relations Officer of the Northeastern Railway Ashok Kumar told PTI that on Saturday the loco pilot applied emergency brakes after seeing the stone.</p>
<p>Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh: A 16-year-old boy has been apprehended for allegedly putting a fencing pillar on the Banda-Mahoba rail track, causing disruptions on Saturday, police said.</p>.<p>The driver of the passenger train had to apply emergency brakes to stop the train after he noticed a concrete pillar on the tracks, police said.</p>.<p>The incident occurred on Saturday afternoon when the driver of a passenger train informed the Railway Protection Force and police about the obstruction on the track, they said.</p>.<p>"Police team along with RPF reached the spot and detained a minor. The minor has confessed to placing the pillar on the track," Circle Officer (CO) of the area Deepak Dubey said.</p>.Two labourers die after being hit by train in Uttar Pradesh’s Amethi.<p>The rail traffic on the route was cleared shortly after the pillar was removed from the track, the officer said.</p>.<p>A similar incident occurred earlier in the day in Ballia.</p>.<p>A rail engine hit a stone placed on the railway track in the Bairia area on Saturday, officials said, adding that no damage was caused.</p>.<p>Public Relations Officer of the Northeastern Railway Ashok Kumar told PTI that on Saturday the loco pilot applied emergency brakes after seeing the stone.</p>