Lucknow/New Delhi: Nine coaches and the engine of the New Delhi bound New Farakka Express derailed near Rae Bareli early Wednesday, killing at least seven people and seriously injuring nine, Uttar Pradesh police said.
The accident on the New Farakka Express (14003) that was on its way from Malda in West Bengal to New Delhi took place in Harchandpur area of Rae Bareli district at 6.10 am, UP Additional Director General, law and order, Anand Kumar said. About 30-35 people received minor injuries, he said.
The railways, however, maintained that five people – three men and two women — were dead and 19 injured. Ten women and six minors are among the injured, railway officials said.
Four of the seriously injured are being treated at the trauma centre of Lucknow’s King George Medical University and two at the city’s Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, UP government spokesperson Shrikant Sharma told reporters.
The other injured were taken to Rae Bareli, about 80 km from the state capital Lucknow, for treatment, officials said. A special train, which was arranged for the stranded passengers, left Lucknow for New Delhi at 2.45 pm with 1,369 passengers on board, railway officials said, adding that they were given food packets to sustain them through the journey.
Seven killed as New Farakka Exp derails in UP
