CCTV, eyewitnesses unable to explain Mumbra deaths, CR sets up probe panel | Mumbai News

MUMBAI: More than 24 hours after the Monday morning rush hour Mumbra tragedy through which 4 commuters died and 9 others had been injured — some after falling off two passing native trains and others whereas contained in the compartment — Central Railway (CR) continues to be to conclusively decide what led to the unprecedented accident on town’s suburban railway community, reviews Manthan Okay Mehta. In the absence of clear CCTV footage or inconclusive eyewitness accounts, the trigger stays a thriller.CR on Tuesday set up a five-member committee of senior officers to examine, however didn’t specify a deadline. They will study all prospects, together with overcrowding, brushing of baggage, attainable quarrels, or passengers on footboards dropping stability at a curve. Cops tracked one other man injured within the incident to a non-public hospital in Diva, taking the rely of injured to 10. Central Railway on Tuesday set up a five-member committee of senior officers to examine the sequence of occasions main to the Mumbra tragedy. The probe panel consists of the senior divisional safety commissioner, senior divisional mechanical engineer, senior divisional electrical engineer, senior divisional engineer, and the senior divisional operations supervisor. CR’s chief public relations officer Swapnil Nila stated, “There is no fixed deadline, but the committee has been asked to submit its findings at the earliest.”A senior RPF official stated, “We have reviewed CCTV footage from the platform, but it doesn’t offer much insight as the view was blocked by the trains themselves.”Adding to the thriller, officers stated even the injured commuters have been unable to present clear accounts of how they fell. “There is talk of passengers being flung and colliding with the opposite train, but nothing is confirmed yet,” an official stated.The incident occurred on the Diva finish close to Mumbra rilway station. Preliminary observations recommend the incident occurred when two quick locals—a Kasara-CSMT prepare and a CSMT-Karjat one—crossed one another forward of the curve. It is suspected that shoulder luggage or baggage brushing in opposition to passengers might have destabilised these on the sting.CR has not imposed any extra pace restrictions on the stretch following the accident.Of the 13 commuters concerned within the mishap, 11 had been aboard the Kasara-CSMT quick native, whereas two had been on the CSMT-Karjat prepare. Of the deceased, Vicky Mukhyadal and Mayur Shah had been within the CSMT-Karjat prepare, whereas Ketan Saroj and Rahul Gupta had been travelling on the Kasara-CSMT native.An official stated scratch marks had been discovered on the outside of the Kasara-CSMT prepare’s final coach. “It appears that a passenger’s bag may have grazed the coach of the opposite train, which may have triggered the incident,” the official stated.Meanwhile, the native workers from Mumbra railway station who attended to the mishap victims are doubtless to be referred to as in for questioning. The railway police, guided by the assistant commissioner of police, railways, CSMT, on Tuesday inspected the spot the place the victims had been discovered following the mishap to search for clues. – Inputs by Manoj Badgeri