Four coaches of the Gorakhpur-bound Chauri Chaura Express derailed while the train was departing from Kanpur Central railway station in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday evening, news agency ANI reported. The coaches came off the tracks at Platform 7 as the train was leaving the station.

Source: ANI via Indian Economic Observer

No casualties have been reported so far, and railway officials said no passengers were injured in the incident. Further details are awaited, and no official statement on the cause of the derailment had been issued at the time of reporting.

Source: Inshorts, citing railway officials

4Coaches derailed at Kanpur Central
Platform 7Where the train came off the tracks
0Casualties reported so far

The Chauri Chaura Express (trains 15003/15004) runs between Kanpur and Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh under Indian Railways' North Eastern Railway zone. The derailment came at a busy travel period, with large numbers of passengers passing through Kanpur on their way to Bihar and Jharkhand ahead of the Chhath festival, Dainik Jagran reported.

Source: Dainik Jagran

Wednesday's Kanpur incident was the second derailment of the day on the Indian Railways network. In the morning, coaches of the Kolkata-Sairang Express derailed at Digaru station in Assam's Kamrup (Metro) district, an incident covered separately by Awaaz Punjab.

Source: ANI via Dainik Jagran