Jalgaon tragedy: Karnataka Express arrived 20 minutes after Pushpak halted by chain pulling

Jalgaon tragedy: Karnataka Express arrived 20 minutes after Pushpak halted by chain pulling.

New Delhi, Dismissing reports that some passengers of Pushpak Express jumped off the train amid a fire rumour, railway officials.

Thursday said the passengers alighted after they stopped the train by pulling alarm chain and had adequate time to move to safe location as Karnataka Express arrived 20 minutes later.

Thirteen passengers of the Mumbai-bound Pushpak Express, who got off the train, were run over by the Karnataka Express heading from Bengaluru to Delhi on the adjacent tracks in Maharashtra’s Jalgaon district on Wednesday evening.