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Two children pulled out alive from derailed coach of Indore-Patna Express

Two children were pulled out alive from an overturned coach of the Indore-Patna Express in Pukhraya as rescuers looked for survivors among the heaps of metal and scattered baggage.

Updated on: Nov 20, 2016, 15:07:57 IST
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Two children were pulled out alive from an overturned coach of the Indore-Patna Express in Pukhraya as rescuers looked for survivors among the heaps of metal and scattered baggage.

Police officers and people gather at the site where a train was derailed in Kanpur. (Reuters Photo)
Police officers and people gather at the site where a train was derailed in Kanpur. (Reuters Photo)

The two boys, aged six and seven, were pulled out from the S3 bogie of the train, police officials said.

A woman, suspected to be the mother of the boys, was found dead near them, police said.

Two girls are also trapped in another coach, AK Singh, NDRF Commandant said.

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“There is another coach that was smashed and two girls are still trapped inside it. We can’t use cranes to pull them out. But I want to assure you that they will be rescued. After that, we will execute a search operation to find the bodies before closing the operation,” he said.

Singh said crowd management was obstructing rescue operation.

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