A major disaster was averted on Friday as no casualties or injuries were reported after five coaches of Kannur-Bengaluru Express derailed between Toppuru and Sivadi of the Bengaluru Division following a rockslide.
All 2,348 passengers on board are safe, the South Western Railway officials said. “A doctor checked all the passengers. Fortunately, even minor injuries were not reported,” SWR Chief Public Relations officer Aneesh Hegde said.
The train had left Kannur at 6.05 pm on Thursday and the incident occurred at around 3.30 am on Friday when small boulders from a nearby hill fell and got entangled between the track and the train’s wheels.
