20 passengers injured as train derails in Kashmir

November 23, 2011 13:42

Details of the train derailment at Pulwama in Kashmir.

Rediff.com's Mukhtar Ahmad files this report from Srinagar.

In a first train mishap in the Kashmir Valley, at least 20 passengers were injured when the Qazigund to Srinagar train derailed at Sadhora village in south Kashmir's Anantnag district this afternoon.

Police sources said that the engine and two bogies of the train went off the rails. "All the passengers were safe and senior police officials, along with more rescue teams are on their way to the accident spot," a senior police officer told rediff.com.

This is the third major train mishap in the last two days after seven passengers were killed when two AC bogies of the Howrah-Dehradun Express caught fire in Jharkhand. Four passengers were injured in a train collision in Odisha earlier in the day.

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