Two trains derail near Bhopal at same spot together – 29 killed

It was a tragic accident when two trains derailed at the same spot at the same time and killed 29 passengers – five of the dead were children. The tragedy occurred while the trains were crossing a culvert on the swollen Machak River in Harda district, 160-Km from Bhopal and the time was 30 minutes before midnight.
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 6 August 2015.

There were ten bogies involved - seven from the Varanasi-bound Kamayani Express and three from the Mumbai-bound Janata Express.
Most of the casualties were reported from the Mumbai-Varanasi Kamayani Express, which had almost 200 people travelling to UP. Some of the people were victims of electrocution because the overhead traction wire snapped and fell on the tracks.
Rescue operations started nearly four hours after the tragedy.
Incidentally, 20 minutes before this tragedy, the Pawan Express and a goods train had crossed the same spot safely. The railways blamed the tragedy to flash floods triggered by a breach in a bund (embankment) at the nearby Mandla village under Khirkiya tehsil. However, the Harda administration denied that embankments on Machak River had collapsed and blamed the accident to erosion of the soil below the railway tracks.
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