Hundreds of irate locals ransacked the Delang railway station in Puri district and set fire to a train on Friday. The mob, apart from damaging furniture and fixture in the station premises, set a bogie of the Puri-Barbil Express train afire at the station, reports said. The incident took place following the death of a local youth after falling down from a train at the station on Thursday evening.
East Coast Railway (ECoR) sources said the mob set fire to a bogie of the train but all passengers were safe. The East Coast Railway (ECoR) authorities cancelled, short-terminated and controlled some trains on the Khordha Road-Puri railway line due to the agitation at the Delanga railway station. However, train services were normalised at 12.35 pm. The agitation had started at 6.50 in the morning demanding stoppage of trains at Delanga station. Trains like Cuttack-Bhadrak-Cuttack, Paradeep-Cuttack-Paradeep passenger, Paradeep-Puri and Barbil-Puri Inter City Expresses from Puri were cancelled.
The authorities also short-terminated Puri-Barbil-Paradeep Express and later cancelled while Puri-Cuttack passenger, Okha-Puri Express, Howrah-Puri Express, Khurda Road-Puri passenger, lTT-Puri Express, Durg-Puri Express at Khurda Road, New Delhi-Puri Purusottam Express, Angul-Puri passenger and Talcher-Puri passenger were controlled en route at different places.