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  Indian Railways News  / There was a loud sound when S11 caught fire: Mukul Roy -

Railway Minister Mukul Roy on Monday said that some injured passengers and a gateman had heard a loud sound when the S-11 coach of Tamil Nadu Express caught fire, but refused to say at this stage whether he suspected sabotage."Some of the injured passengers admitted to hospitals and a gateman at one of the level crossings near Nellore station heard a loud sound when the fire occurred in the coach," Roy told PTI before leaving for the accident site at Nellore in Andhra Pradesh.Asked if he suspected any act of sabotage, Roy said, "I will not say anything at this stage.""Nothing is being ruled out and nothing can be said without an investigation. It will be investigated if inflammable substances were in the compartment or it was caused by a short circuit," the minister said.

  Indian Railways News  / Passenger cries RPF assault

Railway Protection Force men at Howrah station allegedly locked up a man illegally for several hours and severely beat him up after he refused to bribe them for having travelled in a coach reserved for the physically challenged.Bivash Pal, 37, who travelled in the reserved coach of the Jagannath Express despite being physically fit, has lodged a complaint with the Howrah GRP, naming an RPF sub-inspector as one of the accused.According to the complaint, Bivash could not even sit properly when the RPF men dumped him on platform 22 after the torture. The cops had allegedly taken away his cellphone, watch and wallet, which had around Rs 600.The insurance agent, a resident of Serampore in Hooghly, later said he had borrowed the cellphone of a commuter standing nearby and called up father Bimal Kumar Pal.His father and friends picked up Bivash from the platform and got him admitted to Howrah District Hospital. A doctor at the hospital said the skin of Bivash’s feet had come off, a sign of grievous assault, and there were several marks of blood clot on the face, neck and other parts of the body.“The Jagannath Express had arrived at Howrah station at 8am and when we rescued him, it was 4pm,” said Bimal Kumar Pal.Bivash had boarded the train at 3.45am on Tuesday in Jaleswar, Odisha, where he had gone to meet a client. “While he was getting off on platform 23 at Howrah, some RPF personnel caught him and asked why he had boarded the coach reserved for the physically challenged,” said the father.“The RPF personnel demanded Rs 2,000 but Bivash refused because he knew that the fine for the crime he had committed was much less. He told them that he was ready to pay the fine but not a rupee extra. This angered the cops,” the father said.Railway sources said the fine for Bivash should not exceed Rs 250.The cops then allegedly dragged Bivash to platform 22 and pushed him into an RPF office, where he said he had been tortured.Senior divisional security commissioner (II), Howrah, Satyaprakash, said Bivash had only been verbally abused. He later said: “I have ordered an inquiry.”

  Indian Railways News  / Four girls killed as local train rams into school bus

Amritsar :Four school girls, including two sisters, were killed and 19 others injured when a speeding mini local train rammed into their school bus at an unmanned railway crossing at Kot Mehtab Singh village near here today.The mini local train was moving from Beas Railway Station to Goindwal when it rammed into the school bus near Baba Bakala at Kot Mehtab Singh village, about 35 kms from here.

  Indian Railways News  / तमिलनाडु एक्सप्रेस दुर्घटना: मरने वालों के परिजनों को पांच लाख रुपये का मुआवजा

रेल मंत्री मुकुल राय ने तमिलनाडु एक्सप्रेस दुर्घटना में मरने वालों में प्रत्येक के परिजनों को पांच लाख रुपया अनुग्रह राशि देने की घोषणा की। गौरतलब है कि, चेन्नई जा रही तमिलनाडु एक्सप्रेस के एक डिब्बे में नेल्लोर के समीप ही आज सुबह शॉर्ट सर्किट होने की वजह से आग लगने के कारण कम से कम 47 यात्रियों की जल कर मौत हो गई और 25 अन्य घायल हो गए। नेल्लोर के कलेक्टर श्रीधर ने बताया कि ट्रेन के डिब्बे एस 11 आग लगने से पूरी तरह जल कर नष्ट हो गया और इससे 26 यात्रियों को बचाया गया है।

जैसे ही ट्रेन चेन्नई से करीब 150 किमी दूर स्थित नेल्लोर से गुजरी, कुछ लोगों ने उसके एक डिब्बे में आग देख कर रेलवे के अधिकारियों को सूचना दी। दक्षिण मध्य रेलवे ने तमिलनाडु एक्सप्रेस में यात्रा कर रहे लोगों के बारे में उनके परिजनों को सूचना उपलब्ध कराने के मकसद से सिकंदराबाद, विजयवाडा, नैल्लोर और वारंगल में हेल्पलाइन स्थापित की हैं जिनके नंबर निम्न हैं।

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  Indian Railways News  / All aspects of train fire to be probed: Railway Board chief

All aspects of the fire aboard Tamil Nadu Express Monday that left 32 dead and injured 27 will be probed in detail, said Railway Board chairman Vinay Mittal. Speaking to reporters here on his way to Nellore, the site of the accident, he said: "All the aspects of the fire accident in the S-11 coach of Tamil Nadu Express will be probed," adding it will be "premature" to make any statement about the cause. A fire broke out in the S11 coach of the train shortly after it passed through Nellore railway station in south coastal Andhra Pradesh, about 450 km from Hyderabad. The train was bound to Chennai from New Delhi.