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MUMBAI: More than 24 hours aft the Monday greeting unreserved hr Mumbra calamity successful which 4 commuters died and 9 others were injured — immoderate aft falling disconnected 2 passing section trains and others portion wrong the compartment — Central Railway (CR) is inactive to conclusively find what led to the unprecedented mishap connected the city's suburban railway network, reports Manthan K Mehta.
In the lack of wide CCTV footage oregon inconclusive eyewitness accounts, the origin remains a mystery.CR connected Tuesday acceptable up a five-member committee of elder officials to investigate, but did not specify a deadline. They volition analyse each possibilities, including overcrowding, brushing of bags, imaginable quarrels, oregon passengers connected footboards losing equilibrium astatine a curve. Cops tracked different antheral injured successful the incidental to a backstage infirmary successful Diva, taking the number of injured to 10. Central Railway connected Tuesday acceptable up a five-member committee of elder officials to analyse the series of events starring to the Mumbra tragedy. The probe sheet includes the elder divisional information commissioner, elder divisional mechanical engineer, elder divisional electrical engineer, elder divisional engineer, and the elder divisional operations manager. CR's main nationalist relations serviceman Swapnil Nila said, "There is nary fixed deadline, but the committee has been asked to taxable its findings astatine the earliest.
"A elder RPF authoritative said, "We person reviewed CCTV footage from the platform, but it doesn't connection overmuch penetration arsenic the presumption was blocked by the trains themselves."Adding to the mystery, officials said adjacent the injured commuters person been incapable to supply wide accounts of however they fell. "There is speech of passengers being flung and colliding with the other train, but thing is confirmed yet," an authoritative said.The incidental occurred astatine the Diva extremity adjacent Mumbra rilway station.
Preliminary observations suggest the incidental occurred erstwhile 2 accelerated locals—a Kasara-CSMT bid and a CSMT-Karjat one—crossed each different up of the curve. It is suspected that enarthrosis bags oregon luggage brushing against passengers could person destabilised those connected the edge.CR has not imposed immoderate further velocity restrictions connected the agelong pursuing the accident.Of the 13 commuters progressive successful the mishap, 11 were aboard the Kasara-CSMT accelerated local, portion 2 were connected the CSMT-Karjat train.
Of the deceased, Vicky Mukhyadal and Mayur Shah were successful the CSMT-Karjat train, portion Ketan Saroj and Rahul Gupta were travelling connected the Kasara-CSMT local.An authoritative said scratch marks were recovered connected the exterior of the Kasara-CSMT train's past coach. "It appears that a passenger's container whitethorn person grazed the manager of the other train, which whitethorn person triggered the incident," the authoritative said.Meanwhile, the section unit from Mumbra railway presumption who attended to the mishap victims are apt to beryllium called successful for questioning. The railway police, guided by the adjunct commissioner of police, railways, CSMT, connected Tuesday inspected the spot wherever the victims were recovered pursuing the mishap to look for clues. - Inputs by Manoj Badgeri
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