Death toll in Bilaspur train tragedy hits 12

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People stitchery  aft  a rider  bid     collided with a goods bid     adjacent   Bilaspur railway station, Chhattisgarh. File.

People stitchery aft a rider bid collided with a goods bid adjacent Bilaspur railway station, Chhattisgarh. File. | Photo Credit: PTI

With a 19-year-old pistillate succumbing to injuries sustained successful the November 4 bid mishap successful Bilaspur connected Wednesday (November 12, 2025), the decease toll successful the bid clang has climbed to 12. Bilaspur Superintendent of Police Rajnesh Singh said the injured victim, Mahwish Parveen, who was hospitalised died connected Wednesday. 

Last week, a MEMU (mainline electrical aggregate unit) rider bid heading to Bilaspur from Gevra (in neighbouring Korba district) deed a stationary cargo train, sidesplitting 11 and injuring 20. Among those killed was Vidya Sagar, the loco pilot, of the rider train.

An archetypal probe conducted by the Railways reportedly recovered that the unit of the MEMU rider bid failed to power it astatine the reddish signal.

Published - November 12, 2025 10:14 p.m. IST

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