New Delhi: The Railways are already affected badly in this year with severe accidents of derailment occured in major parts of the country ,once again it was continued to affect the railways, Seven coaches of the Jabalpur- bound Shaktipunj Express lost the contact with track due to derail today in Sonbhadra district of Uttar Pradesh, Railway ministry spokesperson Anil Saxena said that “The accident has happened at around 6:25 AM in the morning and have arranged all the formalities and already cleared out the site, All passengers were adjusted on the remaining coaches by 7:28 AM all of them had left the place, All of them are safe and no one was injured in the accident.
One of the official said that The Shaktipunj Express was running at a speed of about 40 km/hr which, prevented any injuries when the derailment occurred in Uttar Pradesh’s Sonbhadra, This is the third such derailment that had happened in less than a month, on August 19, Utkal Express had interrupted the Muzaffarnagar district, 22 people were killed and 156 injured persons.