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Train derails in Assam

| | May 23, 2015, at 06:15 pm
Kokrajhar, Assam, May 23 (IBNS) Several passengers were injured when the Guwahati-Sifung express derailed in Assam's Kokrajhar district on Saturday morning.

Reports said the engine driver was among those injured.

Reports quoted a spokesman of the Northeast Frontier Railway as saying that  the accident occurred between Salakati and Basugaon at 5:15 AM  when the train was about to negotiate a bridge.

All the passengers of the train coming from Alipurduar in Bengal to Guwahati were transhipped from the accident site.

The driver of the train has been admitted to hospital while the passengers with minor injuries were given first aid. 

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