12 injured in Bihar train collision
By IANSFriday, February 13, 2009
PATNA - At least 12 people were injured when a passenger train collided with a goods train in Bihar’s Motihari district early Saturday morning, the second accident within 24 hours.
The Gorakhpur-Muzaffarpur passenger train collided with the engine of a goods train standing at Sugauli railway station near Motihari.
‘All the injured have been admitted in a local government hospital for treatment,’ the official said.
He said the accident took place when the passenger train driver overshot a red signal.
Fifteen people were killed and 140 injured when the Howrah-Chennai Coromandel Express derailed in Orissa.
Lalu Prasad, while presenting the interim railway budget for 2009-10 in parliament Friday had pointed to the railway’s safety record.
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