Bhubaneswar: The CBI has sealed the relay interlocking panel at the Bahanaga Bazar railway station in Odisha, prohibiting access of the staff to the signalling system. Therefore, no passenger or goods train would stop at Bahanaga Bazar till further notice, South Eastern Railway chief public relations officer, Aditya Kumar Chaudhary said.
Last week on Friday, Bahanaga Bazar railway station witnessed the deadliest train accidents of the century involving Coromandel Express, Yeshwantpur-Howrah Express, and an iron ore-laden goods train, resulting in the death of at least 288, and leaving more than 1,200 passengers injured,
Stoppages of trains at this station have been suspended till the CBI probe into the tragedy is over. The CBI has sealed the station after seizing the log book, no trains would stop at the station till the probe is over, officials said.
As many as 170 trains pass through the Bahanaga Bazar Railway station on a daily basis, out of which seven passenger trains, including Bhadrak-Balasore MEMU, Howrah Bhadrak Baghajatin Fast Passenger, Kharagpur Khurda road fast passenger, stop here every day for a minute.
