Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday expressed concern after a goods train derailed near Rangapni station in the northern part of West Bengal on Wednesday.
She wrote on X, “Another rail accident today, in the same Phansidewa/ Rangapani area in North Bengal, where there was a most tragic accident just six weeks back! We are very concerned about what is happening!!”
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However, no one was injured in the accident, which took place at a site under the New Jalpaiguri Rail Division.
North-East Frontier Railway (NFR) CPRO Sabyasachi De told the media, “The empty petroleum wagon, part of the goods train, was headed for Rangapani when it jumped the tracks at 11.45 am.”
He added that railways personnel cleared the tracks by promptly removing the derailed wagon and that the region’s railway traffic faced no disruption.
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The previous “accident” that Banerjee referred to happened when a goods train had rammed into the Sealdah-bound Kanchanjunga Express, killing at least 10 people, including two railway workers and a six-year-old child, and injuring more than 40 people, near Rangapani station.
Incidentally, the spot of Wednesday’s accident is not far from the site where three coaches of Sealdah-bound Kanchanjungha Express had derailed on June 17, as a goods train collided with it. The incident had resulted in the death of 10 people.
CM Mamata Banerjee. (File Photo) 
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