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.

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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.