- Friday, May 02, 2025
Loco drivers of both the trains were injured in the incident which according to the railways, happened as one of the trains overshot the signal.
By: Shubham Ghosh
IT was exactly a year ago that a multi-train accident in the eastern Indian state of Odisha had resulted in deaths of nearly 300 people while more than 1,000 were left injured. On Sunday (2), as the nation remembered with grief the tragedy, yet another similar incident happened in Madhopur in Fatehgarh Sahib district of the northern state of Punjab.
However, there was no casualty as no passenger train was involved in the latest accident. Two freight trains collided and two loco pilots received serious injuries, police said. Both trains got derailed as a result of the impact and the locomotive of one of the trains climbed onto the wagons of the other, reminding of the locomotive of the Coromandel Express, one of the trains involved in last year’s accident, which had also faced a similar fate.
According to the government railway police (GRP), both the injured loco pilots were initially admitted to the Sri Fatehgarh Sahib Civil Hospital and later they were referred to Rajindra Hospital in the city of Patiala.
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“Around 3:45 am, we received information that an accident took place. We have reached the spot. Two loco pilots have been injured and they have been admitted to Civil Hospital, Fatehgarh Sahib. No casualties have been reported,” said Ratan Lal of the GRP of Sirhind where Madhopur is located.
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Both the loco pilots were learnt to be residents of the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.
Railway sources mentioned that the accident did not happen due to a rear collision but because one of the good trains overshot a signal.
(With ANI inputs)
