Road-roller hits train,driver injured

The driver of a road-roller Kamlesh Yadav was injured when his vehicle was hit by Patna-Delhi Garib Rath Express at an unmanned railway crossing in Barabanki on Tuesday.

The train engine got derailed,but none of the passengers or the railway crew was injured. The crossing lies between Budwal and Chauka Ghat railway stations. “We came to know about the incident from the police control room. A police team sent the road-roller driver to hospital,” said in-charge of GRP at Barabanki,Mohan Verma.