A major accident was averted in the wee hours of Saturday morning, when the Patna-bound Rajdhani Express came to a sudden halt after pantry car of the train caught fire near Kuchman station of the Mughalsarai-Dildarnagar section of East Central Railway. The incident happened at around 3:30 a.m. due to a short circuit in the pantry car. The pantry coach has been completely burnt. However, passengers have escaped unharmed.
Aftab Alam Siddiqui captured the moments in his camera. From top: The train after its arrival at Patna Junction station. The broken windows show pasengers took the passsge for safety and bottom: the burning pantry car on March 21, 2009.
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