Train Hits 10 Kg Piece Of Wood On Tracks In UP, Sabotage Suspected
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The incident damaged a signalling device on the tracks, which affected the Lucknow-Hardoi up and down lines and led to loco pilots of other trains to operate with caution
A passenger train hit a thick piece of wood kept on the tracks on Thursday night in what is being suspected as a sabotage in Uttar Pradesh again. The incident comes a month after an empty gas cylinder was found on the tracks near Prempur railway station in UP's Kanpur, and 10 detonators were found on a railway track in an attempt to blow up a train carrying army personnel in Madhya Pradesh's Burhanpur district.
Train No. 14236 Bareilly-Varanasi Express running between Delhi and Lucknow hit the two-feet-long piece of wood weighing over 10 kg and dragged it for some distance. It got wedged under the metal wheels, officials said. The train driver, or the loco pilot, managed to stop the train safely, they said.
The incident damaged a signalling device on the tracks, which affected the Lucknow-Hardoi up and down lines and led to loco pilots of other trains to operate with caution.
