Rourkela-Puri Vande Bharat pelted with stones, none hurt
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ECoR: Vande Bharat Express pelted with stones; no injuries reported. Windowpane of exec. class coach damaged. ECoR alerted RPF & GRP; local police informed. Security wing undertaking drives to make people aware not to throw stones at trains. Similar incidents reported earlier.
Rourkela-Puri Vande Bharat Express has been pelted with stones, the East Coast Railway (ECoR) said in a statement on Monday.
However, no injuries were reported in the incident that took place between Meramandali and Budhapank stations in Dhenkanal-Angul railway section on Sunday night, it said.
"Train number 20835 Vande Bharat Express has been targeted by some stone-pelters between Meramandali and Budhapank in the Dhenkanal-Angul railway section of the Bhubaneswar-Sambalpur rail line," the statement read.
A windowpane of an executive class coach was damaged and the train reached Puri with a delay of 13 minutes, a railway official said.
The incident was reported by an official of the Railway Protection Force (RPF), he said.
The security wing of ECoR has taken the matter seriously and has alerted the Railway Protection Force (RPF) and the Government Railway Police (GRP), he said.
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