A fire broke out in an AC coach of the Thiruvananthapuram-Hazrat Nizamuddin Rajdhani Express in Madhya Pradesh’s Ratlam district early Sunday, damaging two coaches and disrupting traffic on the busy Mumbai-Delhi route for several hours. While no passengers were injured in the blaze, five railway staffers rushing to the spot were injured after their vehicle overturned on the way to the incident site.
The fire was reported around 5.15 am in the B-1 coach of train number 12431 between Vikramgarh Alot and Lunirichha stations under the Kota railway division. The blaze also damaged the luggage-cum-guard van attached behind the coach, railway officials said.
