Three women die, seven injured as goods train derails in Odisha

A goods train derailed at Korai railway station in Odisha’s Jajpur district on Monday morning, with wagons ploughing into waiting passengers, killing at least three of them, all women, and injuring seven others, including a two-and-half-year-old child, officials said.

East Coast Railway (ECoR) officials said that the accident took place at 6:44 am when some people were waiting at the platform and the waiting hall for a passenger train.

Station staffers said that the loco pilot of the empty goods train moving from Dongoaposi to Chhatrapur applied sudden brakes, causing eight wagons to derail and plough into the passengers on the platform and the waiting hall.