Train collision in Bankura district disrupts services

Several boggies derailed after two goods trains collided near West Bengal’s Bankura

On Sunday, a goods train rammed into a stationary freight train at Onda in West Bengal’s Bankura district around 4am, affecting operations for four hours in the Adra section of the South Eastern Railway (SEC), although nobody was injured in the accident, railway officials said.

Both trains were badly damaged and around 12 trains, which were to pass through the Adra section were cancelled, SER officials said.

Speaking to news agency ANI, Aditya Kumar Chaudhary, chief public relations officer of SER said, a freight train coming through the main line jumped the red signal and hit the second train that was standing on the loop line.

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