Four injured in Bihar train blast
Samastipur: Four persons, including a woman, were injured in a blast inside a train at Bihar’s Samastipur railway station when gunpowder inside a bag accidentally ignited, a senior official said.
According to Vinay Srivastava, Divisional Railway Manager, Samastipur, the blast took place on Wednesday afternoon when the Bhagalpur-Darbhanga Intercity Express was at Samastipur rail station’s outer signal.
A team of RPF and GRP personnel immediately rushed to the affected coach in which smoke was found billowing from a bag kept on an upper berth.
The injured passengers were taken to a local hospital for treatment and the train was allowed to reach its destination at Darbhanga, where all the passengers of the coach were interrogated.
