No casualties as the shaktipunj express derails in up
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At least seven coaches of the Shaktipunj Express – bound for Jabalpur from Howrah – derailed in Sonbhadra district of eastern Uttar Pradesh early this morning. “The accident occurred at
around 6:25 AM and we have already cleared out the site,” Railway ministry spokesperson Anil Saxena told _PTI_. “All passengers were put on the remaining coaches and by 7:28 AM all of them
had left the spot. All of them are safe and no one was injured in the accident,” he said. The derailment of the train is the third in UP in less than a month. At least 22 people were killed
when the Utkal Express derailed near Muzaffarnagar on August 19. Less than a week later, the Kaifiyat Express, that travels between Delhi and Azamgarh, derailed in Auraiya district leading
to at least 100 people getting injured in the accident.