City Briefs

Express train hits bikes,derailed

Ghaziabad: A coach of the Patna-Delhi Shramjeevi Express derailed near the Kotgaon railway station on Monday after it crushed five motorcycles at a railway crossing. According to railway officers,the owners of the vehicles were trying to cross the tracks while the crossing gates closed. No one was injured. A railway official said: “A rickshaw-puller was crossing the tracks with his vehicle when he saw the train approaching. When he started moving back,his rickshaw fell on the other vehicles.” Five bogeys of the train passed over the bikes,and the sixth coach derailed.