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Adding to the woes of the Indian Railways, which have fed up of hearing to the news of train accidents, a major train accident was averted in the Naxal hit Dantewada region of Chhattisgarh when a passenger train Kirandul-Vishakhapatnam Express got derailed on Thursday morning. No casualties have been reported yet from the spot.

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As per report of the police, one bogie and engine got derailed at 0600 hrs of Thursday, 45 minutes after the train left Kirandul railway station and was approaching Bhansi railway station.

Immediately after the report of the derailment of the train, additional police force and relief train rushed to the spot. Sources have also reported from the spot that adding railway officials also reached the spot and the repair work is on.

Railway officials told that the goods train movement has been affected due to the incident .Police told to the reporters that initial probe has been launched and police is suspecting the Naxals involvement in the incident but they refused to get any slip, banner among others  related to the Naxals have not been recovered from the spot. However, they reported that the investigations are on.

Had this incident converted into a major accident, this would have been the second railway accident of the month. With the regular accidents, railways are under great panic these days and are looking ahead to install advanced technical gadgets that would help control the accident.

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