SRINAGAR, Occupied Kashmir: Indian Railways said on Monday it had ordered an investigation after a runaway freight train loaded with gravel traveled 70 kilometers without a driver.
Around 50 coaches set out solo from the northern state of Jammu and Kashmir to Punjab before being stopped by wooden blocks placed on the tracks on Sunday.
“We have ordered an inquiry,” Deepak Kumar, Northern Railways spokesman, told media, saying that no one was wounded in the incident. The train, running at 100 kilometres per hour, was seen in a video that went viral on social media.
According to the local media reports, the incident took place after the train stopped at a railway station in Jammu for a crew change. But the train soon began moving down a slope after the driver and his assistant got off.
