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Uttar Pradesh resident Alka Prajapati was sleeping in the ill-fated private party train coach when screams of "fire, fire" erupted...
Thankfully, someone broke open the lock to let the panic-stricken passengers out, possibly averting a bigger tragedy...
The passengers in the private party coach have....smuggled gas cylinder and this has caused the fire," Southern Railway said...
"While the coach was stabled/ parked, some members of the party in the private party coach were using the illegally smuggled cooking gas cylinder unauthorisedly for preparing tea/ snacks, which caused the fire in the stabled/parked coach..
At least nine pilgrims bound for Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu met with a tragic end on Saturday when a fire broke out inside a stationary train compartment at the railway station here in the small hours of Saturday, the Southern Railway said ..
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