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30 July 2024
*Picture shows the derailed coaches of Howrah-Mumbai Express near Jamshedpur in Jharkhand on Tuesday( July 30,2024) pre sun rise morning.
As many as two passengers died and six people were injured as 10 coaches of the Mumbai-Howrah Mail derailed in Jharkhand's Seraikela-Kharsawan district early on Tuesday, reports quoting railway officials said.
“ One body was recovered. Another body was being taken out”, the state public relation officer Avinash Kumar told NharkhandStateNews.com
The accident occurred at 3.45 am near Badabamboo, around 80 km from Jamshedpur, under the Chakradhatpur Division of South East Railway.
"Ten to twelve coaches of the Mumbai-Howrah Mail derailed near Badabamboo. Six passengers were injured in the accident and provided medical aid in Badabamboo. They are now being taken to Chakradharpur for better treatment," PTI quotes a senior SER official as saying.
The train accident was reported from Potobeda in the Kharsawan block of Seraikela-Kharsawan district,PTI states quoting a local administration official as saying. "The Mumbai-Howrah Mail and a freight train are involved in the accident. The assessment of injured people is underway.”
