New Delhi. Another information related to the Chandigarh-Dibrugarh Express train accident in Gonda has come to light. News channel News18 has claimed, quoting railway sources, that the track on which the Dibrugarh Express train derailed yesterday had been repaired a day before. Due to this, a notice was issued that the speed of any train passing on that track should be kept slow.
Now after this new information has come to light, the question arises whether the loco pilot ignored this warning and passed the train at a high speed due to which the train derailed. All the coaches of the train have been removed from the railway track. Repair work is going on on the railway line. Which will be completed soon and after this the operation of trains will be able to start smoothly again on that track.
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Gonda DM Neha Sharma said that four people have died in the rail accident. Rail recovery vans are doing track repair work at the accident site. Work is going on to restore the rail line, train movement will be restored soon. The local administration is working closely with the railways. We have also met the injured passengers and their families at the district hospital. We are in touch with the two injured passengers who have been referred to Lucknow. Railway police is trying to identify the dead.
It is worth noting that after this accident, the loco pilot had claimed that he had heard a bang before the accident, after which the railway officials are investigating the matter from this angle as well. At the same time, a passenger travelling in the train had also said that he heard a bang before the train overturned.