New Delhi: At least 100 passengers were injured after four bogies of
the Guwahati-Puri Express derailed following a suspected IED blast near Rangia
in Assam's Kamrup (Rural) district on Sunday.
The train, with around 1000 passengers, mostly pilgrims bound for Puri left Guwahati railway station at 5:40 pm, railway officials said.
Shocked and traumatised injured passengers, including many women and children had to wait on the tracks for more than one-and-half-hour for rescue teams to reach the site and evacuate them.
Local residents said that they had heard a deafening sound just before the derailment. Police suspect that a faction of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) might be behind the remote-controlled blast.
Most of the injured are being treated at the Rangiya district hospital, but the fear is that many more are trapped inside the capsized bogies.
An explosion at Dhatkuchi between Rangia and Ghagrapar at 8:30 pm led to the derailment of the engine and four bogies immediately behind it but they remained standing, while four other bogies capsized and fell into a three-feet water-filled ditch, they said.
"We had eight bogies derailing out of which four remained standing, but fortunately there has been no casualty what so ever, there have been some injuries and we have been able to attend to them," Suresh Chandra, GM N F Railways said.
The accident has happened hours after the Delhi bound Kalka Express derailed in Uttar Pradesh.
Earlier in the day, 13 bogies of the Delhi-bound Kalka Mail derailed near Malwa station, about 120 km from Lucknow, leaving 45 dead and over 140 injured.
On July 7, the Mathura-Chhapra Express had hit a bus carrying a marriage party at the Adhurpur unammaned railway crossing Kanshiram Nagar, about 250 km from Lucknow, leaving 38 bus passengers dead.
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