Four coaches of the Vande Bharat Express en route to New Delhi from Amb-Andaura station here were damaged when miscreants pelted stones at the train, officials said on Sunday. They said no passengers were injured in the incident. The officials said unidentified people hurled stones at the train near Basal village around 1:15 pm on Saturday and broke window panes of two coaches. Railway police officials said the damage to the train is being assessed and all efforts are being made to catch the culprits.
The loco pilot of Vande Bharat train informed the RPF about the incident. After this RPF reached the incident site and investigated. However, no passenger was injured in this incident. Four coaches of the Vande Bharat train have suffered heavy damage in this incident including E-1, E-2, C-7 and C-10 coaches.
Earlier, stones were pelted on the train running between Una and Churudu Takarla.
In other stone pelting incidents on Vande Bharat, five persons were arrested for damaging Durg-Visakhapatnam Vande Bharat Express during a September trial run in Chhattisgarh's Mahasamund district. The incident occurred when the train was passing through Bagbahra railway station on its way back from Visakhapatnam to Durg during its trail run around 9 pm on Friday, said Praveen Singh Dhakad, inspector of the Railway Protection Force (Mahasamund).
The train was to flagged off from Durg on September 16 for a regular run.
