August 7th, 2008 
krishna Fire 32 persons are feared dead and many injured as five coached of the moving Gautami Express caught fire when it was passing through the Warangal district of the state of Andhra Pradesh.early on in the morning on Friday. It is being said that when the train caught fire passengers were sleeping. It was S-10 no bogie that caught the fire first as the train was nearing the Talla-pusalapalli . When the train was stopped it had engulfed some more compartments. The passengers were evacuated and burning bogies were detached as soon as the train stopped. Some of the handicapped students are stated to be missing who were traveling in the next compartment.
Short-Circuit Earlier death toll was stated to be around four but it kept on rising as more than 15 bodies were found. According to the eye witnesses it could rise more as there could be many bodies trapped in the bogies. State Tribal Welfare Minister D S Redya Naik, was the first to visit the spot said that there ware many charred bodies and death toll could rise. According to the authorities cause of the fire was electric short-circuit that resulted in fire. Doors of the compartments jammed because of electricity failure and because of it passengers could not succeed to save themselves from fire. To escape the fire many passengers jumped out of the burning compartments but children and women could not do so. Railway Minister Laloo Prasad Yadav has announced that an amount of five lacks will be given to the next of the kin of every deceased and one lakh to the injured as compensation.
Security Measures Indian Railways is one of the the world’s largest transportation network that is considered to be the busiest in the world. For many years it was unable to give profits to the government. That affected its growth. There are lakhs of unmanned railway crossings and the department is slowly but steadily solving its security problems as for as the security of the passengers is concerned. Fire in the compartments was not because of some negligence but can be said as a misfortune. It was a misfortune that when the fire broke out most of the passengers were sleeping otherwise it could have bee prevented before it could turn into a major catastrophe.
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