Five killed when rams of Chandigarh-bound train enter open vehicles at UP

Five killed when rams of Chandigarh-bound train enter open vehicles at UP

Five killed when rams of Chandigarh-bound train enter open vehicles at UP

Shahjahanpur : Five people were killed and another was injured after a train rammed into some vehicles at a manned level crossing here whose gates were allegedly not closed at the time of the incident, police said.

Additional Superintendent of Police (Rural) Sanjeev Bajpai said the locomotive of Lucknow-Chandigarh Superfast (5012-down) got derailed after hitting the vehicles, disrupting rail traffic in both directions. 

The incident took place after the train crossed Meeranpur Katra railway station this morning and hit two trucks, a car and a motorcycle at the open crossing, he told PTI.

At least five people, three of them from a family, have died in the incident while one person has been sent to hospital with injuries, he said, adding that the death toll could go up.

He said it is being investigated as to how the gates remained open when a train came hurtling down.

Five killed when rams of Chandigarh-bound train enter open vehicles at UP

Relief and rescue work is under way, and police and administrative officers are present at the site.

"A team of railway engineers has reached the spot and the work is under way to repair the damaged track. Traffic will be normalised in the next three-four hours," District Magistrate Indra Vikram Singh said.

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath expressed condolences to the bereaved families, and announced Rs 2-lakh assistance for each of them, an official spokesman said in Lucknow. PTI