Twelve passengers sustained accidents as they leapt from a slow-moving practice in a state of panic, triggered by the operation of a hearth extinguisher which induced fumes to engulf a coach. This incident occurred on Sunday close to Bilpur station in Uttar Pradesh, aboard a normal coach of the Howrah-Amritsar Mail, in accordance with a Northern Railway official. In response to the emergency, passengers activated the practice’s alarm chain and disembarked whereas the practice was in movement, leading to accidents to 12 people.
“It seems that the act of working a fireplace extinguisher by some troublemakers or a disorderly passenger led to the assumption {that a} hearth had erupted within the coach of the Howrah-Amritsar Mail,” acknowledged the official. The Railway Safety Power has taken up the investigation of the incident.
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