Kurnool train crash

The railway accident of Gooty on December 21, 2002 was the attack on an express train near the town of Gooty in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. 20 people were killed.

Starting position

The train of the South Central Railway ran between Hyderabad and Bangalore. Located 15 km from Gooty station was out of the track of a new railway line, which had been only six months earlier opened to traffic, a rail piece cut out and laminated been the gap. Police later used Blades a jigsaw nearby and suspected that the or the assassins had several days needed to saw through the rail with it.

Accident

In the absence of rail piece derailed at a speed of about 90 km / h to 1 clock at night locomotive and nine of the 23 cars of the train, as he ran over this place. The derailed cars were damaged heavily. 20 people died, more than 80 more were also injured, 30 of them seriously.

Follow

As a result, nobody volunteered to " take responsibility " for the attack. So motive and perpetrators were initially unknown. 13 months after the fact, a man was arrested in connection with another assassination, who was close to the Islamist terrorist organization Lashkar e-Taiba and who was accused of having committed the attack on the train. The " evidence " for it, provided from a combination of electroencephalography and polygraph is not generally accepted as evidence.