8 coaches of Agartala-Lokmanya Tilak Terminus Express derail in Assam

The passenger train (No. 12520), which left Agartala on Thursday morning, derailed at Dibalong station under Lumding division in the Lumding - Bardarpur Hill section at about 3:55 pm, officials of Northeastern Frontier Railways (NFR) said.

“Few coaches and the engine of the train got derailed. However, no casualty or major injuries have been reported,” Kapinjal Kishore Sharma, chief public relations officer of NFR said in a bulletin. In a post on X later, the Press Information Bureau in Tripura put the total number of coaches that were derailed at eight.

An accident relief train and another accident relief medical train have been put into service and senior railway officials rushed to the site to supervise the rescue and restoration works.