Madhya Pradesh CM goes to Kanpur, meets hurt travellers

Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Sunday rushed to Kanpur to visit the people injured in the pre-dawn train tragedy caused by the derailment of Indore-Patna Express in Kanpur rural area in Uttar Pradesh, in the hospital there.

Mr Chouhan who announced an ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakh each to the next kin of the deceased and Rs 50,000 each to the injured in the mishap, described the incident as “most unfortunate” and said the passengers from MP and Bihar were the worst-affected in the incident.

An official team headed by MP minister for water resources Narottam Mishra was dispatched to the accident site to identify the deceased passengers belonging to the state and make arrangements to carry bodies to their native places.

The team has also been entrusted with the task of arranging medical treatment for the injured passengers belonging to the state.