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The incident occurred at the Santhaldih railway junction near the Bhojudih railway station and the tractor got stuck between the railway tracks and the gate.
A major train accident was averted in Jharkhand’s Bokaro after a tractor crashed into the train gate near the Santhaldih railway junction as the New Delhi-Bhubaneswar Rajdhani express (Train No. 22812) passed from there on Tuesday via the night, a railway official said.
The incident occurred at the Santhaldih railway junction, near the Bhojudih railway station, and the tractor got stuck between the railway tracks and the gate.
“A tractor crashed the door of the train as it was closing at the Santhaldih railway junction of Bhojudih railway station in Bokaro district. However, the train driver applied the brakes and the train came to a stop, avoiding any major accidents,” Manish Kumar, DRM, Adra Division, South Eastern Railway, told PTI. Kumar said the incident happened around 5 pm and the train was delayed for about 45 minutes.
He said the tractor has been impounded and an FIR filed at the relevant police station, while the door man has been suspended. The tractor driver had fled the scene.
The incident came just days after one of the worst train tragedies in the country at Bahanaga Bazar station in Odisha’s Balasore district, which claimed 278 lives and injured more than 1,100 after an accident involving Bengaluru-Howrah Superfast. Express, Shalimar-Chennai Central. Coromandel Express and a freight train loaded with iron.
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