|
8 students killed, 30 injured in train-bus
crash
Wednesday September 26, 2012 07:30:06 PM,
IANS
|
|
|
|
|
Patna: At least eight
engineering students, including two girls, were killed and over a
dozen injured Wednesday afternoon when an express train collided
with a bus in Bihar's Siwan district, police said.
Siwan Superintendent of Police Nitasha Gudia said the accident
occurred at Chap Dhala railway crossing near Siwan railway station
when the Howrah-Gorakhpur Bagh Express train rammed into a bus
carrying 25 students of a local engineering college.
Angry over the tragedy, hundreds of local residents torched the
engine and several bogies of the train and damaged railway
property. The engine of the train derailed after the accident.
"The situation is tense in Siwan town after the incident as all
the victims were residents of a nearby village," a district police
official said.
The injured have been admitted to a government hospital.
Train services were disrupted on the Chhapra-Gorakhpur section of
the Varanasi rail division.
According to police officials, a railway official, who was posted
at the railway crossing, ran away after the accident.
"It appears that the bus driver was trying to cross the tracks
ignoring the speeding train because of the absence of the gateman
at the railway crossing," a police official said.
Railways Minister C.P. Joshi announced ex-gratia of Rs.5 lakh to
the next of kin of each deceased, Rs.1 lakh each to those
grievously injured and Rs.25,000 to those who sustained minor
injuries in the accident.
|
|
Home |
Top of the Page
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
i |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
More Headlines |
|
Walmart to launch first Indian store
in 18 months |
|
Bharti Walmart to open six wholesale stores this fiscal |
|
Rolls-Royce to have showrooms in three
more Indian cities |
|
Retired cops push for police reforms,
launch movement |
|
UP to have anti-obscene call cell in
each district |
|
Muslim world leaders reject Obama's free
speech rhetoric at UN |
|
Kashmir: Checks on students coming for Pranab's convocation address |
|
Only barrier-free schools will retain
recognition: Court |
|
Will India and China fight a war again? |
|
Degrees out of reach for 150,000
distance education students |
|
Pro-Mamata intellectuals refuse to quit railway panels |
|
|
|
Top Stories |
|
 Muslim world leaders reject Obama's free
speech rhetoric at UN
Muslim leaders demanded
international action to stop religious insults in a challenge to
U.S. President Barack Obama’s defense of freedom of expression at
the U.N. General Assembly »
'Why Holocaust deniers frowned upon and Islam
bashers protected?'
Why The Prophet is being targeted?
|
|
|
|
Most Read |
|
 Suriya Mandir 'comes' from Gwaliar to Malegaon
Unlike the tradition at other places in Maharashtra, the Ganesh
decoration in Malegaon is observed only on the evening before the
final immersion day. However Ekta Mandal which turns
»
|
|
Will India and China fight a war again?
Most Indians rightly see the 1962 war between India and China, and
a relatively small military defeat and the major national panic
that followed, as a cathartic event. While 1962 will still be the
seminal year for Sino-Indian relations, it is in 1967 »
'India must prepare for conventional wars with
Pakistan, China'
|
|
|
|
News Pick |
|
Only barrier-free schools will retain
recognition: Court
The Delhi
High Court has directed the government to de-recognise private
schools which do not appoint special educators for children with
disabilities and make their premises barrier-free. The court, in a
recent »
|
|
Degrees out of reach for 150,000
distance education students
Nearly 150,000 students face an uncertain future after the Haryana
government directed the Maharshi Dayanand University (MDU) in
Rohtak to shut down its more than 11,000 study centres inside and
outside the state.
»
|
|
Move to make groundwater community resource
Concerned
over the declining water table across the country, the water
resources ministry is working on an overarching law that will
modify provisions that allow proprietary right to a land owner on
groundwater and make it a community resource. Ministry officials
said the draft bill, seeking »
|
|
 Chavan faces crisis as Pawar resigns, NCP
ministers offer to quit
Maharashtra's
Democratic Front government suddenly plunged into a crisis Tuesday
as Deputy Chief Minister and NCP leader »
Corruption: Ajit Pawar
resigns from Maharashtra cabinet, ready for probe
|
|
|
|
Picture of the Day |
|
 |
|
Prime
Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and President of the Palestine
National Authority Mahmoud Abbas at the delegation level
talks, in New Delhi on September 11, 2012. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Comments
|
Quick links