Nine coaches of Duronto Express crashed

Asangaon, Aug 29 The engine and nine coaches of the Nagpur-Mumbai Duronto Express derailed amongst Vasind and Asangaon stations in Maharashtra early today following an avalanche, a senior railway official and a reporter on- board the train said.

The accident occurred at 6:36 am.

No traveler is reported to be harmed in the incident up until now, Sunil Udasi, Chief PRO of the Central Railway, said.

Udasi said the wrecking was caused due to a landslide.


"The reason (of crash) is sudden landslide due to heavy rains. But graciously enough, the driver did an excellent job of applying emergency breaks," he said.

Be that as it may, another railway official said the correct reason for the crash was not yet clear.

"It is associated that a bit with the tracks was washed away because of overwhelming downpours in the Kasara Ghats area since there has been long spell of perpetual and exuberant downpours since the previous couple of days," the authority said.

The prepare had a sum of 18 coaches.

Helpline numbers have been set up at CSMT, Thane, Kalyan, Dadar and Nagpur stations to help travelers.

"At least six coaches along with the engine slipped off the tracks".

Rao, who was going in the A-2 mentor that wrecked, said the mishap happened when most of the passengers were sleeping.


"While we were resting, we felt a twitch and a few travelers tumbled off their compartments. When we got up, we discovered our prepare's intruders crashed".

"Few people were stuck in the washrooms and were saved by a few travelers by breaking glasses of windows," Rao said.

Rao stated, "However alleviation and protect came somewhat late, everything was fine once the Central Railway group arrived."

A team of doctors and in addition senior officers are at the spot.

Proper arrangements have been made to transport stranded passengers from the site to CSMT or different goals by transports and taxicabs.

Traffic operations in the influenced section have been stopped and few trains have been redirected and short-ended, official said.

An announcement issued by the Central Railway stated, "12859 CSMT-Howrah Gitanjali Express has been diverted by means of Kalyan-Karjat-Pune-Daund-Manmad course."

"Sectional authorities and railway workers have touched base at the spot and the entire team has swung into action to save stranded travelers and reestablish activity in the affected section," Udasi said.

"Our rescue team alongside the Accident Relief Train alongside designing staff has achieved the spot," he said.

This is the fourth train crash in the nation in an a traverse of 10 days.

Around 100 travelers were injured when 10 mentors of the Kaifiyat Express train wrecked in UP's Auraiya locale subsequent to colliding with a dumper which strayed on to the tracks.

Fourteen coaches of the high-speed Utkal Express jumped the tracks on August 19, with one of them colliding with a house contiguous the track close Khatauli in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district, guaranteeing 23 lives and more than 60 harmed.

On August 25, six coaches of the Andheri-bound local train crashed in Mumbai, harming six of its travelers.