Runaway train: cops headed for Andhra

Having achieved a breakthrough in figuring out the identity of the suspected hijacker of the suburban train,a team of the Crime Branch-CID....

Having achieved a breakthrough in figuring out the identity of the suspected hijacker of the suburban train,a team of the Crime Branch-CID will meet their counterparts in Andhra Pradesh to find out more about the person and the reason behind his actions.

According to sources,the personnel will visit Hyderabad and meet the Andhra Pradesh IGP (Crime) as suspicions continue that he could be a Maoist. They will also go to Tirupati,to where the mystery man reportedly made phone calls before the incident.

Meanwhile,Chief Minister M Karunanidhi said all possibilities,including whether this was a planned sabotage in view of the ongoing general election,were under probe. It is good fortune that the train hit a goods train instead of the Nilgiris Express. It would have been an unimaginable catastrophe otherwise, he said in a statement on Friday.

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On Wednesday morning,a suburban train was hijacked from the Moore Market complex by an unknown and unauthorised person,about 30 minutes ahead of the scheduled time. The train,travelling at a very high speed,collided head-on with a goods train on the same track within three minutes. Four persons were killed on the spot and 11 injured in the crash. Of the four,three were identified as passengers of the train,while the fourth one continues to be a mystery,but for a tattoo in Telugu which read Raju.

The statutory inquiry by the Railway Safety Commissioner K J S Naidu continued for a second day on Friday.

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