Bhubaneswar: A portion of a wall, and a shed of a platform in Odisha’s Cuttack railway station collapsed and fell on the track during the ongoing redevelopment work Wednesday, officials said.
A person suffered minor injuries, they said, adding that train movement resumed after being affected for a little over three-and-a-half hours.
Due to the wall collapse at platform number one, the roof of a shed also caved in and fell on the tracks, an officer of East Coast Railway (ECoR) said.
“During redevelopment works at Cuttack railway station, some construction work was being carried out with adequate safety precautions. Unfortunately, at 3.45 pm, an old wall collapsed onto the platform, temporarily hampering train movement on Platforms 1 and 2,” the ECoR said in a statement.
According to an eyewitness, the incident took place soon after a Vande Bharat train passed the platform.
“It is stated that one person sustained minor injury in the incident and he has been hospitalised,” said Pradeep Kumar Behera, additional divisional railway manager (Operation) of Khurda Road Division.
“The structure that collapsed was very old. As redevelopment work was going on, no public was allowed near that stretch,” Behera said.
Train services on the affected track were restored in the evening.
A Bhubaneswar-Balasore MEMU train passed through platform number 1 at 720 pm, the East Coast Railway (ECoR) said in a statement.
Cuttack Deputy Commissioner of Police Khilari Rishikesh Dnyandeo said, “Soon after the incident, GRP, Fire Service, RPF and a medical team reached the spot.”
PTI
