A team led by Railway Safety Commissioner RK Sharma on Tuesday began a second-phase probe into the Samaleswari Express fire mishap that claimed the lives of three railway staff on June 25.
After reaching by a special train, the team visited the mishap site at Angoor village and Keutguda railway station for the probe.
Sources said, the team held a closed-door meeting with railway officials at the Keutguda railway station and later inspected the train engine and bogies gutted in the fire mishap.
On June 25, three railways staffs were killed while some passengers’ sustained injuries after the engine of Howarh-Jagdalpur Samaleswari Express caught fire at Gadabaguda after it rammed into a tower car engaged in repair work between Singapur Road and Keutguda.
Following the mishap, East Coast Railway (ECoR) had suspended four railway staffs, including two Station Masters for negligence in duty while Divisional Traffic Inspector Santosh Behera was suspended by the Vishakhapatnam DRM.