Mumbai-Madgaon Vande Bharat express inauguration cancelled after Coromandel train accident
Ratnagiri/UNI: The inauguration programme of Mumbai-Madgaon Vande Bharat express on Kokan railway, scheduled for Saturday in Mumbai, has been cancelled following the Odisha railway accident.
Prime minister Narendra Modi was scheduled to show the green signal to the 19th Vande Bharat express from Mumbai to Madgaon here,
The new express is slated to cover the distance between Mumbai and Madgaon in six hours and fifty minutes.
More than 900 people have been injured in the mishap where three trains collided one after the other, causing one of the worst railway accidents in the country.
Railway Minister Aswani Vaishnaw on Saturday morning arrived at ground zero at Bahanaga station and reviewed the situation with senior railway officials, NDRF and ODRAF teams.
The Railway Minister has already ordered a high-level inquiry into the accident.
As per the latest report, over 900 passengers have been rescued and admitted to different hospitals.
The casualty figure is likely to rise as one general bogie is half-buried in the accident site, and efforts were on to retrieve bodies from it, sources told UNI.
The bodies extricated from the coaches have been kept in two schools in Bahanaga.
The corpses would be taken to local hospitals for post-mortem.
IBNS
Senior Staff Reporter at Northeast Herald, covering news from Tripura and Northeast India.
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