New Delhi: Seven coaches of Katihar-Amritsar Amrapali Express derailed in Bihar’s Khagaria district on early Sunday.
There was no report of any casualty in the derailment that occurred at a place under Sonepur division of Eastern Central Railways.
“Seven coaches of 15707 UP Katihar-Amritsar Express including one AC-2, one AC-3 and five sleeper coaches jumped the track in between Patraha and Gouchari at around 1:14 am,” Chief Public Relations Officer of East Central Railway, Arvind Kumar Rajak, said.
Rajak said the cause of derailment is under probe. The affected coaches after the engine are A-1 of AC2, B-1 of AC3, and sleepers coaches S5, S6, S7,S8 and S9.
Routes of nearly half-a-dozen trains including New Delhi-Dibrugarh Rajdhani Express, New Jalpaiguri-Danapur Capital Express and Anand Vihar-Jogvani Seemanchal have been diverted via Bhagalpur due to the derailment.