Indore-Patna Express News
On November 20, 2016, 14 coaches of the Indore-Patna Express derailed near Kanpur claiming 150 lives and more than 100 injuries.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday touched upon the 2016 Kanpur train tragedy and termed it as a "conspiracy" of the people "sitting across the border".
The NIA is investigating the role of ISI in the derailment of Indore-Patna Express train on November 20 last year in Kanpur in which 150 people lost their lives.
Indore-Patna Express had met with an accident on Sunday.
The spot inquiry into the Indore- Patna Express accident by Railway Safety Commissioner (Eastern Circle) P K Acharya concluded today even as he inspected the wrecked coaches of the ill-fated train at Pukhrayan in Kanpur Dehat district.
On behalf of the Chinese government, Jingping offered his deepest condolences to the victims and their families.
The accident claimed 146 lives and left about two hundred injured.
A fracture in rail tracks is also being talked about as the possible reason for the tragedy that led to the death of 148 people and injured over 100 others.
A day after he claimed that wheels of Indore-Patna Express had made some strange sound long before it derailed in Kanpur Rural district of Uttar Pradesh, Prakash Sharma, who had travelled between Indore and Ujjain, was today asked to depose before competent authority.
Railways decided to increase the frequencies of ultra sonic flaw detection system.
Although dozens of them had minor injuries, the pain was overcome by the joy of reaching alive and reuniting with their families.
Most of the casualties were in S1 and S2 compartments.
The railway minister reached the site in the evening and also visited those injured in the hospital.
The derailment took place just a little after 0300 hrs when the passengers were deep asleep and jolted as the train jumped off the tracks.
Nitish Kumar described the derailment of the train in Kanpur rural area as sad and expressed deep grief over the tragedy.
PM Modi observed two-minute silence to condole the loss of lives at the Rail Vikas Shivir at Surajkund on the outskirts of the national capital.
With several passengers feared trapped, rescue personnel employed cold cutters to break open the compartments as gas cutters produced excessive heat and suffocation hampering their efforts.
The disaster took place just a little after 0300 hrs when the passengers were deep asleep and jolted as the train jumped off the tracks.
Minister of State for Railways, Manoj Sinha, has reached the spot to oversee the relief operations.
Five search and rescue teams of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) has been mobilised to Kanpur.
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