TN chennai train accident 7 killed

At least seven people were killed and 20 injured when a local passenger train collided with a goods train in Chennai's northern Vyasarpadi suburb on Wednesday, an official said.'The accident occurred a little before 6 am. The identities of the motormen who operated the two trains are being sought,' a Southern Railway spokesman said.
In a bizarre rail accident, an "unauthorised man" ran an electric train for about seven kms unnoticed before ramming it into a goods train, leaving four persons dead and 11 others injured near Vyasarpadi Jeeva station in city's northwestern suburbs. As the Electric Multiple Unit (EMU) parked in the Moore Market complex was about to be moved by the unauthorised man, some passengers boarded the train believing it was a regular service, Railway sources said.

All local and long distance trains coming from Arakkonam (over 30 kmnorth of Chennai) towards Chennai Central have been stopped enroute,the railway official said. All the injured were rushed to the General Hospital in Chennai while police are trying to identify the dead, including the motormen of the two trains who were believed to be among the dead.

Railway authorities have suspended all local and long distance trains going to Chennai Central from the northern suburb town of Arakkonam, where the mishapped passenger train departed, on a route which is one of the busiest urban rail lines in India. "Train services are disrupted due to the mishap but we hope to restore the services in two to three hours time," an Indian Railway spokesperson told the media.

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