{"id":44632,"date":"2025-01-23T02:57:04","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T02:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=44632"},"modified":"2025-01-23T02:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T02:57:09","slug":"eleven-passengers-killed-by-another-train-after-fleeing-fire-rumour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=44632","title":{"rendered":"Eleven passengers killed by another train after fleeing fire rumour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At least 11 people have been killed and five injured after they fled rumours of a fire on board their train in India, only to be hit by another train.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Railway officials said the passengers got down from the Mumbai-bound train in western Maharashtra state after someone pulled the emergency cord, causing it to stop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They were hit by a train on an adjacent track. It was not immediately clear whether there had actually been a fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">India has launched a $30bn (\u00a324bn) programme to modernise its railways in recent years but this has been marred by a series of accidents, including&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-india-65807252\">a major three-train crash in 2023 in the state of Odisha<\/a>&nbsp;which left nearly 300 people dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said in a post on X that he was &#8220;deeply saddened by the tragic loss of lives&#8221; during the incident near Pachora in Jalgaon district, about 400km from Mumbai, India&#8217;s financial capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said eight ambulances had been dispatched and hospitals were on standby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The crash will be seen as a setback for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has called for modernisation of the railways to boost the economy and connectivity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are plans to boost spending on the programme in next month&#8217;s budget, Reuters news agency reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: At least 11 people have been killed and five injured after they fled rumours of a fire on board their train in India, only to be hit by another train. Railway officials said the passengers got down from the Mumbai-bound train in western Maharashtra state after someone pulled the emergency cord, causing it to stop. They were hit by a train on an adjacent track. It was not immediately clear whether there had actually been a fire. India has launched a $30bn (\u00a324bn) programme to modernise its railways in recent years but this has been marred by a series&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44633,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44634,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44632\/revisions\/44634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}