Cop's warning, sent hours before Rajdhani derailed, was ignored

June 26, 2014 12:38

The day before the Rajdhani Express derailed in Chhapra, Bihar a police officer in the area where the accident took place had urged his seniors and railway officials to follow a basic precaution: to run a pilot engine on the track an hour before passenger trains as a way of ensuring the tracks were intact. His alert was sounded after Naxal insurgents called a strike in the area; it was ignored; four people died after the Rajdhani Express headed from Delhi to Assam derailed in Chapra, 75 kilometres from the state capital of Patna. Read more

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