MYSORE –BANGALORE PASSENGER TRAIN DERAILS
Five rear coaches
of 231 Mysore-Bangalore passenger train derailed and capsized
at 06.15 AM today on Bangalore-Mysore section, block section Naganahalli-Pandavpura,
Bangalore Division of South Western Railway, killing 4 (EDITORS:
CORRECT) passengers and injuring 25 including 10 grievously. The
rear most coach overturned. The injured have been admitted to
railway hospital, Mysore and Civil Hospital, Srirangapatanam.
Through communication
has been affected and restoration is awaited. An Accident Relief
Medical Train and other ambulances from Mysore have reached the
site. The Minister for Railways, Shri Nitish Kumar, the Minister
of State for Railways, Shri Basanagouda R.Patil and Chairman,
Railway Board, Shri R.K. Singh, have reached the site of the accident
alongwith senior officials of South Western Railway overseeing
rescue and relief measures.
Shri Nitish Kumar
has expressed profound grief over the accident and conveyed heart-felt
condolences to the next of kin of those killed and deep sympathies
to those injured.
