Newly-weds killed, dancers get lucky
A newly-wed couple and the bride’s mother died in the fire that engulfed the Tamil Nadu Express on Monday.
K. Venkataramana, a software engineer, had boarded the train with wife Pallavi and mother-in
28 die in burning train
Twenty-eight people were charred and 25 injured when a mystery fire engulfed their S11 compartment of the New Delhi-Chennai Tamil Nadu Express near Nellore early on Monday. Many of the victims were Ch
Inferno on wheels
Won’t rule out sabotage: CM
Reacting to the fire aboard the Tamil Nadu Express, Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy said on Monday that he did not rule out sabotage. Speaking to the media at Nellor
Ill-fated S11 coach was a ‘defective’ piece of work
The charred S11 coach of Tamil Nadu Express was a disaster waiting to happen. Coach no. CN08201, manufactured in 2008, was given a sick marking or rather reported defective with electrical problems mo
Survivors recall the horror: There were screams, smoke
Eyewitnesses who escaped with their lives from the horrific train fire tragedy, can never forget those panic-stricken moments. They recall how the tubelights burst with a loud, explosive sound before
Survivors cry for kin
Though some passengers from Tamil Nadu had a miraculous escape from the burning train, they were still inconsolable or worried about ‘missing’ family/friends.
Ms N.S. Veena, 30, going to her native c
Emergency window goes unused
A majority of the train passengers who travelled in Tamil Nadu Express were unaware of the emergency window option available in coaches S9 and S10 while coach S11 was burning. The passengers screamed,
Private vans refuse to ferry kids
On Monday, Ms Jayalakshmi of Ayanavaram had to take leave from work as the school van driver refused to pick up her daughter studying in Class I in a school at Korattur, 10 km away.
Hundreds of paren
Train mishap: Passengers recall harrowing experiences
It was a harrowing experience for Chennai-bound Tamil Nadu Express passengers as they saw people burning inside the ill-fated coach.
Chitra, a passenger from Delhi, heard screams for help as he
Passengers, gateman heard sound from burning coach: Mukul
Railway Minister Mukul Roy on Monday said that some injured passengers and a gateman had heard a loud sound when the S-11 coach of Tamil Nadu Express caught fire, but refused to say at this stage w