12 Injured As 2 Coaches Of Capital Express Train Derail In Bengal

09:47PM Tue 6 Dec, 2016

NEW DELHI: 12 people have been injured, three of them seriously, after two coaches of Capital Express train, scheduled from Bihar's Rajendra Nagar to Guwahati in Assam, derailed in West Bengal this evening. The derailment took place close to Samuktala Road Station in West Bengal's Alipurduar district, which is about 720 kilometres from Kolkata, around 9 pm. The injured have been sent to hospital. Arrangements are being made to safely send other passengers to Guwahati. According to the Northeast Frontier Railway, the engine and the coach adjacent to it derailed. Two weeks ago, 14 coaches of the Indore-Patna express ran off the tracks near Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh, killing over 100 people.