20160314 India Two wagons of goods train catch fire in Karjat
India Mar 13 2016 “Automobile & Railway”
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Two wagons of goods train catch fire in Karjat
Updated: 2016-03-14-00:39
Two wagons of a goods train carrying petrol tanks, caught fire in Karjat on Saturday at 9pm. The wagons are suspected to have caught fire when a sealing wire, which had come undone, touched the overhead electric wire. A local village youth, Ramesh Bedekar, informed the fire brigade immediately and the flame was doused.
“We got the call about the fire at around 9pm. We reached the spot and doused the fire. We noticed that the sealing wire of one of the wagons had come undone and it must have touched the electric wire due to the wind,” said fire officer, Karjat Municipal Council, Dinesh Hire.
Luckily, the fire did not reach the wagon filled with petrol and a disaster was averted, he added.
In the meantime, the over head electric wire’s power supply was cut off till 1am, Sunday, leading to other trains being stopped.
Web Source: THE TIMES OF INDIA
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