Tamilnadu Express

[PMREDDY19]

for the Sad NEWS so early in the Morning..

Papam maximum andaru IT lo work chesey vallu unnaranta..

50 passengers Dead

20 Severely Injured..

http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/fire-on-tamil-nadu-express-28-dead-several-injured-249296?pfrom=home-lateststories


[b]Hyderabad: [/b]It was about 4.30 in the morning when the S-11 coach of the Delhi-Chennai Tamil Nadu Express caught fire near Nellore station in Andhra Pradesh. Most people were asleep; the train was to reach the next stop, Chennai, only at about 7 am. Panicked passengers awoke to smoke and fire and ran for the only exit they could make out in the dark. They stepped on bodies near the door. 28 people died in coach S-11 on Monday morning.

Nellore District Collector B Sridhar said a short-circuit near a toilet caused the fire. The train, he said, was moving at a speed of 110 kilometres per hour and it took nearly five minutes for it to be brought to a halt after a station master at Nellore spotted the fire. By that time, the smoke and fire had trapped many people. "I noticed the fire and opened the door since I was near it and alerted a few others. About 10 of us got off. Two or three of them went back to fetch their luggage. They never returned," a passenger said.

Some hapless passengers had to rush to the other end of the bogie to exit since the fire had soon engulfed one end. Bodies were found piled near a door, leading to questions on whether those passengers could not escape because that exit was blocked or jammed. Sahaj Ahmed, a man from Jammu and Kashmir who had boarded the train at Bhopal, said that as he ran in pitch dark to escape the flames, he feared that he might have stepped on some dead bodies.


Passengers were seen trying to douse the fire using water from toilets, raising more questions. Were there no fire extinguishers on the train? Anurag, Divisional Railway Manager (DRM) said, "The gatekeeper had alerted the station master (of Nellore station)... power was shut off and train was stopped... Trains are painted with a fire-retardant but in case of a big fire it does not help. Even a fire extinguisher won't help."

BV Ramana Kumar, Superintendent of Police, Nellore said, "By timely action, we were able to stop the fire from spreading to the other two coaches on the side of this coach." But for families like that of one-year-old Kaushik, it was not timely enough. The baby was rescued by a co-passenger. His mother is in hospital. His father and three-year-old brother, Harshit, are missing.

Nor for a young mother whose burnt body was found by a window of the S-11 coach still tightly embracing her baby in death.

[img]http://www.ndtv.com/news/TNtraininteriorshot295x200.jpg[/img]28 bodies have been recovered but only four have been identified so far. All the bodies were charred beyond recognition. Railway personnel are doing preliminary identification based on the reservations records for the affected coach, which seated 72 and was said to be full.

At the Nellore station, there were gut-wrenching wails as people discovered that their family members were not among the survivors. Dazed survivors just sat with their belongings, numb.

Railway Minister Mukul Roy, who announced an inquiry into the fire and ex-gratia compensation for the next of kin of victims, said some injured passengers and a gateman had heard a sound when the S-11 coach caught fire. He, however, refused to say whether he suspected sabotage.

But Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy, who reached Nellore by afternoon, said "we cannot rule out sabotage yet."

Today's accident is the third major one this year. On May 22, a major accident involving the Humpi Express and a goods train in Andhra Pradesh killed 25 people. Within 10 days, the Howrah-Dehradun Express derailed in Jaunpur in Uttar Pradesh on May 31.

In May this year, a report submitted by the Comptroller and Auditor General on Railways said that safety was not a priority. The Kakodakar report recommended many safety measures in 2011. These included elimination of all level crossings (manned and unmanned) in the next five years, and all new coaches to be of safer LBH type, among others. It is still to be implemented.

([i]With PTI Inputs[/i])
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[bhargava_v]

memu ninna night nundi chusthunam ee news...

[_chameleon_]

[quote name='PMR aka OM' timestamp='1343655528' post='1302224298']
for the Sad NEWS so early in the Morning..

Papam maximum andaru IT lo work chesey vallu unnaranta..

50 passengers Dead

20 Severely Injured..
[/quote]

Abbo bad luck

Any news abt the root cause?

Safty measures teesukunnamu naarau mari boghi antha kaalipoye varaku eEmi peekutunnaru Ee raliway vaallu

[remobabu]

50 aaaa .. 25 ani chadiva nenu

[PMREDDY19]

[quote name='remobabu' timestamp='1343655682' post='1302224304']
50 aaaa .. 25 ani chadiva nenu
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25 injured in hospital..


safety violations to many ,.,.

inka conection between this bogi and the next one was locked by some one in the train.. late rnights andaru atu itu tirughtu unnaru ani..

evado moosesadanta..

so no way of escape for people in the train until it stopped and not even emergency doors were opened ..


trian lo nundi dookina vallu some people from Vijayawada were saved. most of the people from other states .. were dead in sleep...

[karna11]

sad news

[remobabu]

[quote name='PMR aka OM' timestamp='1343660583' post='1302224658']


25 injured in hospital..


safety violations to many ,.,.

inka conection between this bogi and the next one was locked by some one in the train.. late rnights andaru atu itu tirughtu unnaru ani..

evado moosesadanta..

so no way of escape for people in the train until it stopped and not even emergency doors were opened ..


trian lo nundi dookina vallu some people from Vijayawada were saved. most of the people from other states .. were dead in sleep...
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hmmm so sad ba ... emergency doors open avvaleda ?? adem bogi vayy .. asal pichi nadash gallu safety violations tho ela nadipisthunaroo ... Condolences for their loss ba ...

[king420]

Train kalipodam entayya daridram kakapote

[PMREDDY19]

For a Train Running at a speed of 110 km/hr..

There is no menas of fire detectin in the train until a station master saw the fire in the train and alerted the train driver..

Where the Hell is safe in India now..

People are not boarding the superfast express trains for free..




\Why the Hell the Indian Railways never thought it is a Safety issue..

Why doesn't the emergency doors are not even operable and all the doors are jammed and unable to open in such a crisis..

[Kakateyudu]

[chelsea]

RIP

[king420]

[quote name='PMR aka OM' timestamp='1343661343' post='1302224718']
For a Train Running at a speed of 110 km/hr..

There is no menas of fire detectin in the train until a station master saw the fire in the train and alerted the train driver..

Where the Hell is safe in India now..

People are not boarding the superfast express trains for free..




\Why the Hell the Indian Railways never thought it is a Safety issue..

Why doesn't the emergency doors are not even operable and [size=6]all the doors are jammed and unable to open in such a crisis.[/size].
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pakka bhogi loki parigettachuga mama evado plug lo velu petti keliki untadu daniki govt em chestundi ........ flight gaaali lo undaga emergency window evadanna pichodu open cheste adi airlines vadida thappu??

[PMREDDY19]

[quote name='HAPPYNESS' timestamp='1343662145' post='1302224764']

pakka bhogi loki parigettachuga mama evado plug lo velu petti keliki untadu daniki govt em chestundi ........ flight gaaali lo undaga emergency window evadanna pichodu open cheste adi airlines vadida thappu??
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Ala ani kaadu maastaaru.. flight lo alight attendents. untaaru.
alagey..
Train lo kuda TC untaadu. sleeper coach lo seats leka .. door daggara ninchuna vallu matram escape ayyaru... Dabbulu petti Seat teesukunna vallu ekkuva mandi chanipoyaru..upper berths lo vaalu asalu can;t escape from there anta..

no fire Extinguishers.. no alrms .. nothing.. just people and Train..


Train ki vesina paint.. fire resistant undaali anta. kaani motham paint antha karigi poyi.. janalaki inka pedda hazard gaa maripoyindi.

something more fishy out there...

[baa]

[quote name='PMR aka OM' timestamp='1343655528' post='1302224298']
for the Sad NEWS so early in the Morning..

Papam maximum andaru IT lo work chesey vallu unnaranta..

50 passengers Dead

20 Severely Injured..

[url="http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/fire-on-tamil-nadu-express-28-dead-several-injured-249296?pfrom=home-lateststories"]http://www.ndtv.com/...e-lateststories[/url]


[b]Hyderabad: [/b]It was about 4.30 in the morning when the S-11 coach of the Delhi-Chennai Tamil Nadu Express caught fire near Nellore station in Andhra Pradesh. Most people were asleep; the train was to reach the next stop, Chennai, only at about 7 am. Panicked passengers awoke to smoke and fire and ran for the only exit they could make out in the dark. They stepped on bodies near the door. 28 people died in coach S-11 on Monday morning.

Nellore District Collector B Sridhar said a short-circuit near a toilet caused the fire. The train, he said, was moving at a speed of 110 kilometres per hour and it took nearly five minutes for it to be brought to a halt after a station master at Nellore spotted the fire. By that time, the smoke and fire had trapped many people. "I noticed the fire and opened the door since I was near it and alerted a few others. About 10 of us got off. Two or three of them went back to fetch their luggage. They never returned," a passenger said.

Some hapless passengers had to rush to the other end of the bogie to exit since the fire had soon engulfed one end. Bodies were found piled near a door, leading to questions on whether those passengers could not escape because that exit was blocked or jammed. Sahaj Ahmed, a man from Jammu and Kashmir who had boarded the train at Bhopal, said that as he ran in pitch dark to escape the flames, he feared that he might have stepped on some dead bodies.


Passengers were seen trying to douse the fire using water from toilets, raising more questions. Were there no fire extinguishers on the train? Anurag, Divisional Railway Manager (DRM) said, "The gatekeeper had alerted the station master (of Nellore station)... power was shut off and train was stopped... Trains are painted with a fire-retardant but in case of a big fire it does not help. Even a fire extinguisher won't help."

BV Ramana Kumar, Superintendent of Police, Nellore said, "By timely action, we were able to stop the fire from spreading to the other two coaches on the side of this coach." But for families like that of one-year-old Kaushik, it was not timely enough. The baby was rescued by a co-passenger. His mother is in hospital. His father and three-year-old brother, Harshit, are missing.

[b]Nor for a young mother whose burnt body was found by a window of the S-11 coach still tightly embracing her baby in death.[/b]

[img]http://www.ndtv.com/news/TNtraininteriorshot295x200.jpg[/img]28 bodies have been recovered but only four have been identified so far. All the bodies were charred beyond recognition. Railway personnel are doing preliminary identification based on the reservations records for the affected coach, which seated 72 and was said to be full.

At the Nellore station, there were gut-wrenching wails as people discovered that their family members were not among the survivors. Dazed survivors just sat with their belongings, numb.

Railway Minister Mukul Roy, who announced an inquiry into the fire and ex-gratia compensation for the next of kin of victims, said some injured passengers and a gateman had heard a sound when the S-11 coach caught fire. He, however, refused to say whether he suspected sabotage.

But Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy, who reached Nellore by afternoon, said "we cannot rule out sabotage yet."

Today's accident is the third major one this year. On May 22, a major accident involving the Humpi Express and a goods train in Andhra Pradesh killed 25 people. Within 10 days, the Howrah-Dehradun Express derailed in Jaunpur in Uttar Pradesh on May 31.

In May this year, a report submitted by the Comptroller and Auditor General on Railways said that safety was not a priority. The Kakodakar report recommended many safety measures in 2011. These included elimination of all level crossings (manned and unmanned) in the next five years, and all new coaches to be of safer LBH type, among others. It is still to be implemented.

([i]With PTI Inputs[/i])
[i]For NDTV Updates,[/i]
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[king420]

[quote name='PMR aka OM' timestamp='1343663934' post='1302224907']


Ala ani kaadu maastaaru.. flight lo alight attendents. untaaru.
alagey..
Train lo kuda TC untaadu. sleeper coach lo seats leka .. door daggara ninchuna vallu matram escape ayyaru... Dabbulu petti Seat teesukunna vallu ekkuva mandi chanipoyaru..upper berths lo vaalu asalu can;t escape from there anta..

no fire Extinguishers.. no alrms .. nothing.. just people and Train..


Train ki vesina paint.. fire resistant undaali anta. kaani motham paint antha karigi poyi.. janalaki inka pedda hazard gaa maripoyindi.

something more fishy out there...
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aa door daggara nilabadina vallee edo keliki untaru ...aa restrooms venkala fuse box untundi bhogi di...intha accident ela jarigindi?? evado okadu penta pettadam valla??