LPG cylinder found on rail tracks on Kanpur-Prayagraj route

The loco-pilot of a goods train applied emergency brakes after he spotted a gas cylinder on railway tracks near Uttar Pradesh's Prempur station on Sunday morning.

The train was going from Kanpur to Prayagraj. The railway police removed it from the tracks and are probing the matter.

Earlier this month, a major accident was averted after the Prayagraj-Bhiwani Kalindi Express collided with an LPG cylinder placed on the tracks.

On August 17, as many as 22 coaches of the Varanasi-Ahmedabad Sabarmati Express derailed, also near Kanpur, after the engine hit an ‘object,’ described by the loco pilot as a boulder.