An entire pleader coach of ECR, Dhanbad razed in a fire that broke out at Hazaribagh road railway station under the Dhanbad division and causing huge property loss here on Saturday morning.
The fire was detected around 5:30 am in pleader coach of the eastern central railway which was standing at up loop line at the station .The RPF, GRP and local Jharkhand police reached the spot immediately .The bogie in which the fire broke out was occupied by some pleader employees, said the station superintendent .while the exact cause of the fire is yet to be known ,police suspect the presence of inflammable material in the coach sparking off the fire.
Sources informed that the people could not gauge the intensity of fire and they failed to call for the fire brigade in time .This is the reason why fire-brigade got delayed t reach the spot on the time and they arrived at the scene about one hour after the fire had started,
local passengers who were present on the platform said .The bogie that was completely gutted include equipments of pleader.The stocks of food materials and other articles of the coach were retrieved before being gutted. While two staffs suffered minor burn injuries, said local police.
As per reports the exact mishap reportedly occurred when a stove in which some employees were cooking and a stove cylinder suddenly exploded in side the coach at 5:30 am on Saturday .The coach where the fire broke out was filled with smoke and the fire was so huge that the flames reached a height of 40 to 50 feet.
Although no casualty was reported but rail officials shockingly added that it was a danger waiting to happen. They questioned the existence of the coach is likely mobile house.Dhanbad DRM on Saturday launched an inquiry into the incident .