4 die after inhaling poisonous gas while cleaning well
PUNE: The dining car of Deccan Queen, an 89-year-old legacy of the Indian Railways, will stay in operations as the railway authorities have revoked their decision of closing the iconic facility.
AK Jain, senior public relations officers (PRO), Central Railway, said, “We had decided to discontinue the dining car of the Deccan Queen.
However, we have revoked our decision and the dining car will continue to serve the passengers.”
It is an old legacy of the Indian railways and will continue to function, he said.
According to officials, the Indian railways received messages on social media and letters to the officials’ communication channel with requests to continue the operations of the dining car. Milind Deouskar, Pune divisional railway manager (DRM), in an interview had earlier said, “Given the rising pressure on passenger traffic on the Pune-mumbai route, the railways have decided to discontinue the dining car.”
“Currently, we have to dedicate an entire coach for the dining facility. While other trains are jam-packed owing to the exponential increase in passenger traffic, it becomes difficult for us to keep one coach especially for the dining car,” he said. VARANASI: Four members of a family in Ghazipur’s Bhudanpur village died due to suffocation on Monday allegedly after inhaling the poisonous gas inside a well in their house while cleaning it, the police said. The accident reportedly took place in the morning when 17-year-old Pankaj and his 22-year-old brother Indrajeet entered the well and immediately fell unconscious. According to the police, two of their cousins, Manoj, 22 and Ramshray, 18, who entered the well to rescue them also fell unconscious, following which the neighbours alerted the fire brigade to retrieve the victims.
While three of them died on the spot, the fourth person, Manoj, died on the way to the nearby health centre.
WHILE THREE OF THEM DIED ON THE SPOT, THE FOURTH PERSON, MANOJ, DIED ON THE WAY TO THE NEARBY HEALTH CENTRE.