A 40-year-old migrant worker from West Bengal has admitted to setting the Alappuzha-Kannur Executive Express on fire at the Kannur railway station.
The train, which arrived at the station at 11.06 p.m. on Wednesday, was parked at the eighth yard near the third platform. Fire was noticed in the third bogie from the rear around 1.30 a.m. on Thursday. The bogie was completely gutted. No one sustained injuries.
Northern Region Inspector General of Police Neeraj Kumar Gupta told mediapersons in Kannur on Friday that Prasoonjith Sikdar, 40, a native of North 24 Parganas district in West Bengal, who was in police custody, was behind the crime.
