{"id":19705,"date":"2025-01-22T20:39:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T17:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/at-least-11-killed-in-rail-accident-in-west-india\/"},"modified":"2025-01-22T20:39:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T17:09:30","slug":"at-least-11-killed-in-rail-accident-in-west-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/at-least-11-killed-in-rail-accident-in-west-india\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 11 killed in rail accident in west India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/5343941.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"item-text\">\n<p>Railway officials told local media that someone had pulled the train\u2019s alarm chain, causing it to come to a halt, after which several passengers de-boarded onto the adjacent tracks and were mowed down by another passing train, Al Arabiya News reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> \u201cAs per the information, 11 people have died in the accident and 5 others are injured,\u201d Praveen Gedam, a senior railway official in Nashik region, told ANI news agency, in which Reuters has a minority stake.<\/p>\n<p>Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said ambulances had been dispatched to the spot &#8211; located about 400 kilometers (250 miles) away from India\u2019s financial capital Mumbai &#8211; and arrangements were being made to treat the injured.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cEmergency equipment like glass cutters, floodlights etc. have also been kept ready,\u201d he said on messaging platform X.<\/p>\n<p> Indian railways is the fourth largest train network in the world and is undergoing a $30 billion upgrade, as part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s push to boost connectivity.<\/p>\n<p> Rail accidents in the last two years, including a collision in 2023 that killed at least 288 people, have tarnished its image, however.<\/p>\n<p>MA\/PR<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/227309\/At-least-11-killed-in-rail-accident-in-west-India\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Railway officials told local media that someone had pulled the train\u2019s alarm chain, causing it to come to a halt, after which several passengers de-boarded onto the adjacent tracks and were mowed down by another passing train, Al Arabiya News reported.\u00a0 \u201cAs per the information, 11 people have died in the accident and 5 others &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-asia-pacific"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}