Derailment due to weld-failure: Railways

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Press Trust of India Chennai
Last Updated : May 21 2013 | 6:45 PM IST
A "weld failure" had caused the derailing of Muzaffarpur-Yesvantpur Express here last month which killed one person and injured 32 others, according to the provisional findings of the Railway Safety Commissioner.
S K Mittal, Commissioner for Railway Safety, Southern Railway, had held a statutory inquiry into the derailment.
"According to the provisional findings of the Commissioner appended with his preliminary report, the accident occurred due to 'Failure of Equipment-Weld Failure'," an official release here said.
These findings were under the consideration of the government, it said without elaborating.
11 bogies of the train had derailed at Sitheri, about 90 km from here, on April 10.
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First Published: May 21 2013 | 6:45 PM IST