(MENAFN- Live Mint) At least seven wagons of a freight train derailed on Delhi-Lucknow railway line near Amroha in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday, news agency PTI reported.
No loss of life was reported, Amroha Police said.
The Northern Railway CPRO said that the accident happened at the Amrohi Yard on the Ghaziabad-Moradabad section.
The accident has disrupted trains' movement on the Ghaziabad-Moradabad section route, and trains are being diverted to the alternative route Moradabad-Saharanpur-Meerut-Ghaziabad.
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Meanwhile, Amroha police said an adequate police force was present on the spot along with officers/employees of other concerned departments. There was no loss of life, and the law and order situation was normal.
Earlier on Thursday, at least four people were killed and 20 others injured after multiple coaches of the Chandigarh-Dibrugarh Express derailed near Gonda in Uttar Pradesh.
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Eight coaches of the train derailed between Motiganj and Jhilahi railway stations, about 150 km from the state capital, on the Gonda-Gorakhpur section of the Northeast Railway on Thursday afternoon.
"Train number 15904 Chandigarh-Dibrugarh Express that left Wednesday night from Chandigarh derailed near Gonda Junction station between Motiganj and Jhilahi railway stations at around 2.37 pm on Thursday under the jurisdiction of North Eastern Railway (NER)," Sabyasachi De, a spokesperson said.
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Meanwhile, the General Manager of North Eastern Railways, Saumya Mathur, told ANI today that the restoration work is underway, and the upline will be restored within a few hours.
"The restoration work is underway. The checking process is being done and within some hours, the upline will be restored. On the second line, you are seeing that the work is underway. We are working to ensure that the entire section gets restored by this evening. We are working to ensure that the entire section gets restored by this evening," ANI quoted Mathur as saying.
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The Railway Ministry has announced an enhanced ex-gratia amount of ₹10 lakh to be given to the relatives of those killed. The grievously injured passengers will get ₹2.5 lakh and those with minor injuries ₹50,000.
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