Four coal wagons catch fire in Uttar Pradesh
December 16th, 2009 - 11:00 pm ICT by IANS ( Leave a comment )Lucknow, Dec 16 (IANS) Panic gripped a railway station in Uttar Pradesh’s Firozabad district when four wagons of a train laden with coal caught fire, police said Wednesday.
No causality was reported in the accident that affected the busy Delhi-Howrah trunk rail route.
“It could have resulted into a major incident. However, by the timely intervention of the fire department officials it was averted,” Government Railway Police (GRP) Inspector A.K. Dixit told reporters in Firozabad, some 300 km from here.
As many as four wagons of the Panipat-bound train from West Bengal caught fire at the Tundla railway station.
Damage due to fire was still being assessed, he added.
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