{"id":308826,"date":"2019-02-03T05:09:29","date_gmt":"2019-02-03T05:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=308826"},"modified":"2019-02-03T05:09:29","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T05:09:29","slug":"six-dead-several-injured-after-9-coaches-of-seemanchal-express-derail-in-bihar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/six-dead-several-injured-after-9-coaches-of-seemanchal-express-derail-in-bihar\/","title":{"rendered":"Six dead, several injured after 9 coaches of Seemanchal Express derail in Bihar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-308827 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/train-accident-2-300x155.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/train-accident-2-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/train-accident-2.jpg 626w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">At least six people were dead and several others injured on Sunday after nine coaches of the Delhi-bound Seemanchal Express derailed in Vaishali district of Bihar, railway officials said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The incident took place at around 3:58 am in Sahadai Buzurg.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Ministry of Railways tweeted, \u201cWe express profound grief over the loss of innocent lives in tragic derailment of 12487 Jogbani-AnandVihar Terminal Seemanchal Exp at Sahadaibuzurg in Bihar. Rescue and relief operations are at full swing. Our GM &amp; DRM, NDRF teams, &amp; officials of local administration are at site.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cRescue and relief operations are on for derailment of 9 coaches of Jogbani-Anand Vihar Terminal Seemanchal express at Sahadai Buzurg, Bihar,\u201d Piyush Goyal office tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cRailway Minister is in touch with Railway Board members and GM ECR regarding #seemanchalexpress accident. Relief and rescue operations are underway. He has expressed profound grief over the loss of innocent lives in this tragic accident and wished speedy recovery for the injured,\u201d Piyush Goyal office added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the sources, one general coach, one AC coach B3, three sleeper coaches -S8, S9, S10 and four more coaches have derailed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A team of doctors has been sent from nearby towns of Sonpur and Barauni to the accident site.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Railways has also issued help line numbers -.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sonpur 06158221645<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Hajipur 06224272230<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0Barauni 06279232222<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0Patna 06122202290\/91\/92.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Railway Minister Piyush Goyal also announced Rs 5 lakh compensation to the kin of the deceased. Those seriously injured in the accident will receive Rs 1 lakh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cRailways would give ex-gratia of Rs 5 lakh each to the kin of every deceased. Rs 1 lakh would be given to the grievously injured and Rs 50,000 to those who suffered simple injuries. All medical expenses will also be born by Railways #SeemachalExpress,\u201d Piyush Goyal\u2019s office tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least six people were dead and several others injured on Sunday after nine coaches of the Delhi-bound Seemanchal Express derailed in Vaishali district of Bihar, railway officials said. The incident took place at around 3:58 am in Sahadai Buzurg. Ministry of Railways tweeted, \u201cWe express profound grief over the loss of innocent lives in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":308827,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2915,2089,2014],"tags":[842,10756,10754,10755],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308826"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308826"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308833,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308826\/revisions\/308833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/308827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}