MYSORE –BANGALORE PASSENGER TRAIN DERAILS

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Five rear coaches of 231 Mysore-Bangalore passenger train derailed and capsized at 06.15 AM today on Bangalore-Mysore section, block section Naganahalli-Pandavpura, Bangalore Division of South Western Railway, killing 4 (EDITORS: CORRECT) passengers and injuring 25 including 10 grievously. The rear most coach overturned. The injured have been admitted to railway hospital, Mysore and Civil Hospital, Srirangapatanam.

Through communication has been affected and restoration is awaited. An Accident Relief Medical Train and other ambulances from Mysore have reached the site. The Minister for Railways, Shri Nitish Kumar, the Minister of State for Railways, Shri Basanagouda R.Patil and Chairman, Railway Board, Shri R.K. Singh, have reached the site of the accident alongwith senior officials of South Western Railway overseeing rescue and relief measures.

Shri Nitish Kumar has expressed profound grief over the accident and conveyed heart-felt condolences to the next of kin of those killed and deep sympathies to those injured.