November 14, 2024 21:19 (IST)
Follow us:
facebook-white sharing button
twitter-white sharing button
instagram-white sharing button
youtube-white sharing button
Delhi air pollution: GRAP-3 curbs start tomo; construction works banned, primary schools shift to online mode | We should not become the most polluted city in the world: Supreme Court was told as smog chokes Delhi | Toxic smog engulfs Delhi as air quality remains severe, over 200 flights delayed | ED conducts multiple raids in Kolkata in 'lottery scam' case | Donald Trump picks former Democrat Tulsi Gabbard as US intelligence chief
Suresh Prabhu visits train mishap site

Suresh Prabhu visits train mishap site

| | 20 Nov 2016, 08:01 pm
Kanpur, Nov 20 (IBNS): Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu on Sunday visited the accident site at Kanpur city in Uttar Pradesh where more than 100 people were killed due to derailment of the Indore-Patna Express.

Prabhu reviewed the rescue and relief operations at the site.

"Visited accident site and reviewed rescue and relief operations.Rescuing people,providing relief to those injured our immediate priority," Prabhu tweeted.


In one of the worst railway disasters in recent times, at least 107 have been killed after 14 carriages of an express train jumped tracks in northern Uttar Pradesh near Kanpur on Sunday, officials said.

The derailment of 14 carriages of the Indore-Patna Express near Kanpur city on Sunday early morning also left nearly 200 injured,  reports said.

The incident took place around 3 am close to Kanpur city at a place called Pukhrayan.

Both Indian Army and the National Disaster Relief Force (NDRF) personnel have been deployed in the area to carry out the rescue operations.

The train, carrying more than 500 passengers, jumped tracks when most passengers were sleeping.

Support Our Journalism

We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism

IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.

Support objective journalism for a small contribution.