Brahmaputra Mail Derailed
Gaisal ghost strikes again: Nijbari (Phansidewa), Dec. 10: Death struck at express speed but this time the casualty was one. More than 1,000 passengers of the 4055 DN Brahmputra Mail had a miraculous escape when 14 of the 17 coaches jumped tracks here last night (Sunday night). In 1999, the same train -- Delhi-bound Brahmaputra Mail -- had a head-on collision with the Delhi-Guwahati Avadh-Assam Express in Gaisal, killing at least 300 passengers. The Gaisal ghost came back again on December 23, 2003 when 11 coaches of the train got derailed in Malda. There were no casualties then. The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR), which is not ruling out sabotage, claimed that 66 people were injured though eyewitnesses said the figure would be at least 100. “Of the 66, 30 were released after first aid while the others are under treatment at different hospitals in and around Siliguri,” said T. Rabha, the chief public relations officer of the NFR. Most people were asleep when the bogies jumped tracks ...