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New Delhi:

Three days after India’s deadliest rail crash in more than two decades, which killed 275 people in Odisha’s Balasore, another train, a goods train carrying limestone, has gone off the rails in the Bargarh area of Western Odisha, around 500 km away from the recent crash site. The East Coast Railway has said some wagons of a goods train operated by a private cement factory derailed inside the factory premises near Mendhapali of Bargarh district, and “there is no role of Railways in this matter”.

There is a private narrow gauge rail line between the Dungri Limestone mines and the cement plant of ACC in Bargarh. The line, wagons, and locomotive, all are private and are in no way connected with the Indian Railway system, sources have said.

No casualties have been reported so far, and only a few coaches have reportedly derailed.