Train derailment near Vizag killing 22 - human error and lack of railway maintenance
Anil Rane
Jun. 12, 2007

The Indian Railway has learnt to generate revenues but forgot about the safety standards. It is sad that safety is considered less important than business revenues and terror threats.

Three persons were killed and 21 injured, when 14 coaches of the 2659 DN Howrah-Nagercoil Superfast Express jumped the tracks at Duwada, 20 km from Visakhapatnam, on Monday night.

“There might have been more injuries, mostly minor in nature, but we are referring to those who had been hospitalised,” East Coast Railway CPRO BK Mishra told PTI on Tuesday morning. The deceased had been identified as The deceased were identified as M Prasad Rao (51) from Visakhapatnam, and Virendra Jain (21), and Sashi Swain (30), both from Orissa. All the injured hailed from Bhubaneswar in Orissa.

The injured were shifted to King George and Railway hospitals in Visakhapatnam and senior railway, civil and police officials were at site supervising rescue operations, railway sources said in Hyderabad.

The satyam accident helpline service had rushed five ambulances to the area for shifting the injured to various hospitals, a helpline official told PTI. He said rescue personnel were facing difficulties due to the area being dark while APSRTC buses were requisitioned to take the remaining passengers to their destinations.

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