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A major fire broke out on the Karmabhoomi Express near Sarai Banjara village in Punjab's Rajpura, engulfing at least four coaches. Emergency personnel, ambulances, and fire tenders were rushed to the location, successfully bringing the flames under control. Local administration arranged vehicles to transport passengers to the Rajpura railway station. Railways confirmed that no passengers were injured and no casualties have been reported. A high-level inquiry has been ordered to ascertain the cause of the blaze.

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00:00bringing you a big breaking news at the moment. Punjab trade fire mishap is being reported fire
00:06at four coaches of a train. The train has caught fire in Punjab's Rajpura and fire has been caught
00:11in Karma Bhumi Express in Punjab is what we are learning at the moment viewers. High level probe
00:17has been already ordered by the railways and fire in train coaches at least for now seems to be
00:22under control. There are senior officials that are reaching the spot at this point in time and
00:28in fact railways has ordered high level inquiry into the fire incident and all possible angles will
00:35get investigated. So far we do not have any information of any passenger getting injured.
00:41No passenger injured at this point in time is a big relief coming in for now but a train has
00:46near Rajpura has caught fire. This incident reportedly took place near village Sarai, Vanjara at this
00:53point in time is what we are hearing. Those are some visuals also coming in on your screens. That's
00:58a you know big fire incident that's really taken place in at least four coaches off the train is what
01:05we are seeing at the point in time. There are of course officials that are there, there are police
01:10personnel over there, onlookers also looking at how grave the fire incident has really caught the
01:17attention of many but the big relief at this point in time is what we are hearing is no passengers
01:22injured in this massive fire and you can actually see some coaches getting you know separated from the
01:29main train at this point in time as well.
01:56There is no casualty report, not any major injury report.
02:02Though our teams are there and ambulances and fire brigades are also there.
02:08But the other major details are once the fire is totally down,
02:12we will get to know the other details.
02:14The people who are there are further railway station.
02:19We have to go to the railway station to the railway station,
02:23so that mostly people are going to Bihar,
02:25like the train was going to Bihar.
02:27So, they will go there and go further.
02:31So, the rest of the details will be updated.
02:35Let me go across to Piyush Mishra, my colleague,
02:37joining in to share more details of this fire incident at the train.
02:41Piyush, first up, help us understand,
02:43has any early information been received as to what was the cause of this fire,
02:48at least what we are relieved of is that no major injuries reported
02:53and no casualties at all.
02:55But, of course, the visuals are very scary that we are seeing at this point in time.
02:59Four coaches completely are under fire in this incident.
03:02Where was this train headed to?
03:05How did they get to know about a fire?
03:07And how were the passengers really cordoned off from the fire
03:11and the coaches that were caught in the fire?
03:16Well, we have an update that the fire has been completely doused.
03:20This year, officials of Northern Railways are reaching there on this spot.
03:25Railways have also announced that they are going to do a proper inquiry in this,
03:29and that's why a high-level inquiry has already been announced by Indian Railways.
03:34Officials are reaching there to ascertain the reason of fire.
03:37What we are told is that when officials, the railway local officials, when they were present there,
03:44when they saw fire there in the coach, they immediately alerted the senior officials,
03:48and immediately all the required infrastructure was reached there.
03:52Ambulance, fire services, and other things were immediately called,
03:57and all people were cordoned off.
03:58As of now, the update from Railways is that no body has been injured, no casualty has been reported,
04:04but Railways is still trying to ascertain the reason for this fire,
04:09and that's why the senior officials are rushing there.
04:12In fact, the fire has been completely doused,
04:14but one thing is clear that Railways is going to investigate this entire incident with all the possible angles.
04:20Absolutely. Apiush, thanks a lot for getting us all of those details.
04:24What we do know is that the Railways is going to be definitely investigating all possible angles here
04:29to ascertain the cause of the fire at this point in time.
04:31The big relief coming in that no casualties and no big injuries have been reported.
04:36All the passengers were safely cordoned off before it spread out to four coaches in this train incident as well.
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