The Kolkata–Sairang Express (Train No. 13125), travelling from Kolkata's Chitpur station to Sairang near Aizawl in Mizoram, derailed at Digaru railway station in Assam's Kamrup (Metro) district, on the outskirts of Guwahati, at around 6.54 am on Wednesday. Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) said the train was being received at Digaru station so that another train could be given precedence when the derailment happened.

Source: Northeast Frontier Railway via ANI

The railway's official statement put the derailed stock at the locomotive and five coaches and said no passenger was injured. NFR Chief Public Relations Officer Kapinjal Kishore Sharma separately told news agency ANI that six coaches had come off the tracks and that there was no report of any casualty. No deaths were reported by any source through the day.

On injuries, the counts given by officials differed. Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma posted on X that all passengers were safe and four people had sustained minor injuries and were receiving care. By Wednesday afternoon, The Assam Tribune reported that at least eight passengers had been treated at Sonapur District Hospital and discharged after first aid, among them a seven-year-old child. Stranded passengers were given basic necessities and an alternative train was arranged for their onward journey.

Source: NE Insider / The Assam Tribune

According to NFR, the loco pilot could not control the train's speed while it was being received at the station. Crew accounts carried in the press spoke of a red signal and brake trouble, but the railway has not confirmed those claims; it said an inquiry into the cause is under way. The derailed train is reported to have moved for some distance after leaving the tracks before it stopped.

Source: Daily Jagran

Services restored, inquiry on

Train services through Digaru resumed later on Wednesday, and a special train carried the Sairang Express passengers — around 900 of them, according to reports — onward toward Mizoram. Senior NFR officials, including the General Manager, reached the accident site. The inquiry's findings on why the train could not be controlled on approach to the station are awaited.