Five passengers from Odisha have been injured in the Puri-Haridwar Kalinga Utkal Express derailment near Khatauli in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar district on Saturday evening.
The injured were identified as Madho Mandal, Sabita Mallick, Amay Das, Debendra Das, Yatri Das.
Out of the five, three have been discharged from the hospital and two others are still undergoing treatment. However, death of none of the 99 Odisha passengers was reported.
A team of State Government officers were camping at Muzzafarnagar and had given Rs 5,000 to each injured.
“We will bring the injured to Delhi and send them to Odisha at the earliest,” informed the Odisha Special Relief Commissioner on Facebook.
They were among 99 passengers from Odisha who boarded on Utkal Express on August 17.
“A total of 21 passengers were killed and 130 were injured in the accident. There were 99 passengers from Odisha, but none of them identified among the dead persons,” said East Coast Railway PRO Nirakar Das here on Sunday morning.
“We are in contact with the northern railway. We have cancelled four trains in Odisha and six more trains were diverted following the accident. The situation will be normal today,” he said.The Odisha Government has sent a medical team to Uttar Pradesh for treatment of the passengers injured in the tragic mishap.
The team included Surgery specialist Dr Niranjan Mishra, Orthopedic specialist Dr Kanhei Mohapatra, Medicine specialist Dr Rajeev Jena and pharmacist Kedar Jena.
Similarly, a five-member Govt team led by Transport Minister Dr Nrushingha Sahoo and Health Minister Pratap Jena has reached Muzaffarnagar to assess the situation.