At least seven persons were tonight killed and 85 others injured when a passenger train from Chennai rammed into a stationary train near Arakkonam, derailing five coaches, about 75 km from Chennai, in the third major rail accident in two months.
IG North Zone Syleendra Babu said seven persons were killed in the collision that saw both the trains coming on the same track.
Additional Division Railway Manager in Chennai Usha Venugopal said seven bodies have been recovered from the five mangled bogies which were thrown off the track following the incident at around 9.40 pm.
In Delhi, Railway Board Chairman Vinay Mittal said 85 persons have been injured and the casualty figure could go up.
Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi announced exgratia of Rs 5 lakh to the next of the kin of the dead, Rs 1 lakh for those grievously injured and Rs 25,000 for those who suffered simple injuries.
He said the cause of the accident could not be ascertained immediately. Mittal said according to preliminary report it could be a human error.
Trivedi said the signal was red when the collision took place. The driver of the EMU A Rajkumar is among the injured. His breath analysis was negative for alchohol.
IG North Zone Syleendra Babu said seven persons were killed in the collision that saw both the trains coming on the same track.
Additional Division Railway Manager in Chennai Usha Venugopal said seven bodies have been recovered from the five mangled bogies which were thrown off the track following the incident at around 9.40 pm.
In Delhi, Railway Board Chairman Vinay Mittal said 85 persons have been injured and the casualty figure could go up.
Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi announced exgratia of Rs 5 lakh to the next of the kin of the dead, Rs 1 lakh for those grievously injured and Rs 25,000 for those who suffered simple injuries.
He said the cause of the accident could not be ascertained immediately. Mittal said according to preliminary report it could be a human error.
Trivedi said the signal was red when the collision took place. The driver of the EMU A Rajkumar is among the injured. His breath analysis was negative for alchohol.
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