21 injured as train catches fire in UP's Etawah

Etawah, November 16

Twenty-one people were injured in a fire in a coach of a passenger train early on Thursday in Uttar Pradesh’s Etawah district.

The fire was reported around 2.40 am when the Delhi-Saharasa Vaishali Express was passing through an area under the Friends Colony police station, Etawah SP Sanjai Kumar said.

Fire tenders were rushed to the spot and the fire in the train’s S-6 coach was doused, police said.

The 21 injured passengers were taken to different hospitals, according to the Office of the Uttar Pradesh Relief Commissioner.

Of the injured passengers, 13 were admitted to a hospital in Saifai and seven are under treatment at the district hospital. One passenger was discharged after being administered first aid, the UP relief commissioner’s office said.

Seventeen of the injured are natives of Bihar, three are from Uttar Pradesh’s Gonda and one is from Rajasthan, it said.

Earlier on Wednesday, around 5.30 pm, a fire broke out in the New Delhi-Darbhanga Special Express train, damaging three coaches and injuring eight passengers, according to officials.

The cause of the fires is yet to be ascertained, police said.