Jamshedpur, July 30, 2024 — A significant train derailment occurred near Rajkharsawan in Jharkhand early Tuesday morning when the Howrah-Mumbai Mail collided with a stationary goods train. No reports of casualties yet as ambulance & rescue teams rushes to the site.
The accident occurred around 3:45 AM on Tuesday morning when most of the passengers were sleeping. The accident site is at Bara Bambu in Jharkhand in the Seraikela-Kharsawan district which falls under the jurisdiction of Chakradharpur railway division of South Eastern Railway.
The collision, which happened in the wee hours, led to the derailment of several coaches of the Howrah-Mumbai Mail. Railway authorities have confirmed that the immediate response teams were deployed, and efforts to rescue the passengers are ongoing. The derailment caused considerable damage to the overhead wires and poles, further complicating the restoration efforts.
Passengers on the other coaches of Howrah-Mumbai Mail are stranded for now as more information on rescue effort is awaited. This is the third rail accident of passenger trains in the last one month. The first being that of goods train collision with Kanchenjunga Express that took away several lives and injured many.
Indian Railway carries around 24 million passengers daily. A vast majority of the passengers travel in the general class & sleeper class. While the government is spending a lot to promote high-cost premium class trains like Vande Bharat Express but such frequent accidents of ordinary trains put a question mark on the investment the Union government is doing for the safety of general passengers.
