At least 120 passengers were killed and over 200 others injured, nearly half of them grievously, in the worst train accident in recent years when 14 coaches of the Indore-Patna Express derailed near Kanpur in the early hours of Sunday due to a suspected rail fracture.Officials said that prima facie the cause of the accident could be due to track fracture. We have put up lights,” the Army’s Kanpur station commander, Brig. The administration provided ambulances to the families of the victims to transport the bodies. We are trying our best to provide all kind of help to the injured. “The rescue teams deployed cutters and hydraulic equipment to ensure that all the trapped passengers are evacuated safely from the rail bogies,” the DG, who reached the accident site, said. B. I request you all to help and assist in the relief operations,” he said.

“A high-level inquiry is on. All our GMs have also reached the spot.Of the four coaches, the S1 and S2 had telescoped into each other and most of the casualties were feared to have been in these two compartments. Minister of state for railways Manoj Sinha told reporters at the spot that it seemed the cause of the accident was a rail “fracture”. On his part, the railway minister China LED turn signal lights enhanced the ex-gratia grant from Rs 2 lakhs to Rs 3.The disaster took place just a little after 3 am when the passengers were jolted out of their sleep as the Patna-bound train (19321) jumped the tracks, badly damaging four ordinary sleeper coaches in which hundreds were trapped. “We have not seen a tragedy of this scale ever in our lives. Four trains were cancelled and 14 more diverted after the derailment disrupted traffic on the route. The post-mortem of 27 identified bodies have been done and they were handed over to the families.