As many as 28 passengers were killed while 51 others were grievously injured, who boarded from various stations in Madhya Pradesh in the Indore-Patna Express that derailed near Kanpur in the wee hours of Sunday, official sources said.
Sixteen passengers, who were killed in the accident early yesterday, are from Indore alone. Besides, four from Bhopal, two each from Dhar, Dewas, Gwalior and one each from Shajapur and Ujjain.
According to the state Disaster Management Centre's Control Room here, the relief and rescue work was still on in the accident site and the team from the state was providing information round-the-clock. The number of causality might increase, the sources said while adding that better treatment was being provided to the injured, who are mostly the residents of Indore, Bhopal and Ujjain.
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, state Public Relations Minister Narottam Mishra rushed to Kanpur yesterday and went to hospitals where they met the injured passengers and gathered information.
Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Bhupendra Singh was also keeping a constant vigil over the development and instructed the police and the GRP to initiate necessary action and take care of the injured passengers. About 1,500 passengers boarded from different stations in Madhya Pradesh on Saturday. The accident claimed lives of 143 and over 200 were injured as 14 coaches of the ill-fated train derailed at Pukhrayan near Kanpur early yesterday.
Notably, at least 14 coaches of the Indore-Patna express train derailed on Sunday morning near Pukhrayan area in Kanpur killing about 145 persons.