Lucknow: Two coaches of a freight train on Saturday derailed in Uttar Pradesh’s Farukkhabad, injuring the train guard. The guard had to be rushed to a hospital nearby.
The incident took place near Rajepur village, one kilometer from the Kamalganj station at around 6.15 AM. As a result, rail traffic on the Farukhabad-Kanpur route was disrupted.
More than 500-metres of rail track has been ripped off and all passenger trains on the route have been stopped.
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Meanwhile, the cause of the derailment is being probed, and the track is likely to be repaired by Saturday afternoon, a railway official confirmed.
In a separate incident which took place earlier this year, two coaches of the Katni-Chopan passenger train were derailed near Khanna Banjari Station in Madhya Pradesh’s Katni district. However, no loss of lives or injuries was reported.
