Koraput: Four coaches of a passenger special train derailed between Jeypore-Chatriput stations in Koraput district on Monday.
According to the East Coast Railway, four coaches of Visakhapatnam-Kirandul passenger special train (08551) derailed after passing Jeypore station.
One Sleeper Class and three General Coaches got derailed. No casualties or injuries were reported as the trollies of the train just got derailed onto sleepers, the East Coast Railway added.
Accident Relief Trains have been ordered to proceed to site and officers have also been rushed to site for immediate restoration operations.
Divisional Railway Manager Anup Satpathy, ADRM (infra) Sudhir Kumar Gupta, ADRM (operations) Manoj Kumar Sahoo and other officers are monitoring the relief operations. Alternate transport arrangements are being made for stranded passengers.
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