New Delhi: At least 25 people were injured on Thursday when eight carriages of a passenger train derailed in northern India, a railway ministry spokesman said, the latest in a series of incidents involving the world’s fourth-largest rail network.
The Mahakoshal Express was travelling from Jabalpur city in central India’s Madhya Pradesh to New Delhi, the capital, when it derailed at about 2 AM in Uttar Pradesh state.
“Rescue operations are underway. We have rushed a disaster management team to the incident spot,” railways ministry spokesman Anil Saxena said in New Delhi.
The cause of the derailment has not been determined yet and police would investigate whether it was an accident or a planned attack, he said.
