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An incident of fire was reported on Bhubaneswar-Howrah Jan Shatabdi Express at Cuttack station on Thursday morning. The fire was seen after smoke came out of the brake shoe of the train coach. After receiving information about it railway officials reached the spot and brought control over the blaze. However, the reason behind the flame is yet to be ascertained.
After the fire was brought under control, the train resumed its journey.
After the fire was brought under control, the train resumed its journey.
Last month, a fire broke out on New Delhi-Darbhanga Superfast Express, affecting three of its coaches, near UP's Etawah.
The initial probe pointed to a short circuit as the cause of the fire.
The police officials said that when the train was passing through the Sarai Bhupat station, the station master had noticed smoke in the sleeper coach.
The station master then stopped the train by informing the train driver and guard about the smoke.
Several passengers jumped out of the train as soon as it caught on fire.
In June this year, Coromandel Express crashed into a stationary freight train at Bahanaga Bazar station in Odisha's Balasore district in which 293 people were killed and over 1,200 injured. The CBI had filed the chargesheet against three railway employees in connection with the Balasore train accident.
According to an August statement by the Union minister for tribal affairs Arjun Munda, Train accidents have reduced in Idia over the past few years. He informed that the average annual count of consequential train accidents plummeted from 171 during 2004-14 to 71 during 2014-23.
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