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At the beginning of three days, the train derailed again in Odisha, India

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  • 05 June, 2023 19:46:59

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News Desk: Another incident of train derailment has occurred in Odisha, the eastern state of India. The accident came three days after India's deadliest rail accident in more than two decades. 275 people died in the accident that happened three days ago. However, the latest train accident was a goods train. In a report on Monday (June 5), the Indian media NDTV reported this information. 

Three days after India's deadliest rail accident in more than two decades, another train derailed in the eastern state of Odisha, reports said. This train was carrying limestone due to the accident. The goods train derailed in Bargarh area of ​​the state, about 500 km from the site of the recent accident in Odisha's Balasore district.

NDTV says there is a private narrow gauge railway line between the Dungri limestone mine and the ACC Bargarh cement plant. Sources said the railway line, wagons and locomotives are all private and are not connected to the Indian Railways system in any way. No casualty has been reported so far and only a few coaches are reported to have derailed, the media said. India's East Coast Railway, meanwhile, said some wagons of a goods train operated by a privately-owned cement factory derailed near the factory premises near Mendhapali in Bargarh district and that "the Railways had no role to play". East Coast Railway also said, 'It is a narrow gauge line entirely owned by a private cement company.

All infrastructure including rolling stock, engines, wagons, train track (narrow gauge) is maintained by the company. Before this, at least two and a half hundred people were killed when three trains collided with each other in the Indian state of Odisha last Friday. Around 900 people were injured in the tragic incident. Earlier in 2010, over 150 people were killed when a passenger train derailed in West Bengal and collided with an oncoming freight train. Investigators said the Kolkata-Mumbai passenger train derailed due to Maoist sabotage on the railway line. In that incident, five passenger coaches were thrown onto the side line. and collided with an oncoming freight train on that line. However, no signs of sabotage were found in Friday's accident.

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