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The decease toll successful the collision of a rider bid with a goods bid adjacent Bilaspur railway station successful Chhattisgarh has gone up to 11, officials said connected Wednesday (November 5, 2025).
The incidental occurred astir 4 p.m. connected Tuesday (November 4, 2025) erstwhile the MEMU (mainline electrical aggregate unit) rider bid was heading to Bilaspur from Gevra (in neighbouring Korba district), they said.
“Eleven persons person mislaid their lives and 20 others were injured successful the accident," a connection issued by the Railways said.
The railway medication instantly launched alleviation and rescue operations. The injured persons were being provided with due aesculapian attraction astatine adjacent hospitals, it added.
The interaction of the collision was truthful terrible that a manager of the rider bid ended up connected apical of a wagon of the cargo train, the railway officials said.
The injured passengers person been shifted to Apollo Hospital and Chhattisgarh Institute of Medical Sciences (CIMS) successful Bilaspur.
"The rider bid deed the goods bid from down astatine a velocity of 60 to 70 kmph aft overshooting a reddish signal," a elder railway authoritative said.
"It is present a substance of probe arsenic to wherefore the loco aviator jumped the reddish awesome and failed to use the exigency brake successful time, adjacent though the goods bid was wrong disposable distance," the authoritative said.
Loco aviator of the rider train, Vidya Sagar, was among the killed successful the mishap and adjunct loco aviator Rashmi Raj sustained superior injuries.
The rider bid rammed into the brake van with specified unit that it was mangled badly, the authoritative said.
The manager (guard) of the goods bid jumped retired of the brake van— the past manager of the goods train— astatine the past infinitesimal and sustained insignificant injuries, the authoritative added.
Both the injured railway unit person been hospitalised, helium said.
The railway authorities announced a compensation of ₹10 lakh each to kin of the deceased and R₹ lakh to the earnestly injured persons, portion those who sustained insignificant injuries volition person ₹1 lakh assistance, an authoritative connection said.
A elaborate enquiry into the incidental volition beryllium conducted astatine the level of the Commissioner of Railway Safety (CRS) to ascertain the origin and urge indispensable corrective measures, it said.
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai expressed grief implicit the mishap and announced a compensation of ₹5 lakh to kin of each of the deceased and ₹50,000 each to the injured.
