Ranchi, April 02: Two persons were killed and four others injured after two goods trains collided in Jharkhand’s Sahebganj district early on Tuesday, police said.
The trains, operated by NTPC, crashed around 3 a.m. near Bhognadih in the Barhait police station area, officials said. The accident occurred on NTPC-owned tracks primarily used for coal transportation to its power plants.
“The drivers of both the goods trains were killed in the head-on collision,” Sub-Divisional Police Officer of Sahebganj, Kishore Tirkey, told PTI.
Eastern Railway spokesperson Kausik Mitra told PTI, “The goods trains and the tracks belong to the NTPC. It has nothing to do with the Indian Railways.”
The NTPC Lalmatia MGR line connects the PSU’s Kahalgaon Super Thermal Power Station in Bihar’s Bhagalpur district to the Farakka Power Plant in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district.
In a statement, the railways said NTPC sought assistance from Malda Division and requested a 140-tonne crane from Eastern Railway’s Malda Division, which was arranged from Sahibganj.
“Indian Railways is extending all possible help to NTPC authorities required for restoration,” the statement added.
