Rail services resume on Ahmedabad-Udaipur track a day after explosion

Udaipur/Jaipur: The Udaipur-Ahmedabad train track, a portion of which was damaged in an explosion, has been restored by the railway engineers, officials said on Monday morning. A North Western Railway spokesperson informed that an Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) team has given site clearance on Sunday late evening at 11 pm, after which railway engineers repaired the track and declared it fit for train movement at 3.30 am.

After the track was restored, the Asarwar-Udaipur Express was operated and it reached the Udaipur railway station at 12.30 pm, the official said. Central and state agencies, including the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and the Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS), are investigating the case.

The Inspector General of Udaipur Range, Prafulla said the explosive expert team of the National Security Guard (NSG) has also collected evidence from the site and other central and state agencies are working together on the case. He added it was too early to say what kind of explosive was used and that it would be clear after the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) gives its report.

“Evidence have been collected from the site. The work at the site has almost been completed and the track has been restored. Now the central and state agency officials will sit together for detailing and discussion on a roadmap for the investigation,” he told media persons at the site in Udaipur. Further, the IG said the Udaipur superintendent of police has formed a Special Investigation Team for the case.

The train movement on the route was halted after an explosion took place on the broad gauge line track between Jawar and Khawar Chanda under the Ajmer division on the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday. Local people heard the explosion and two of them reached the site on Sunday morning. They saw the damaged track and informed the railway authorities and the police.

It is pertinent to mention here that the track was opened on 31 October when Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off the inaugural run of the Asarwa-Udaipur Express from the Asarwa railway station in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad.

Officials have said mining explosives were used in the blast.

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