Hyderabad: Falaknuma Express coming from Howrah in West Bengal to Secunderabad caught fire in a coach and burnt four coaches completely on Saturday near Bhongir railway station in Telangana. All passengers are safe and no one not received any minor burnt injuries in this accident.

The train caught fire to the coaches barely an hour before to reach its destination Secunderabad. When the fire started, a passenger from Palasa of AP pulled the chain. When the train came to a halt, all the passengers got out of the train immediately. A passenger noticed a spark in the power socket a few minutes before the fire broke out. Passengers, who noticed youths smoking, asked them to throw their cigarettes away as they were close to the phone charging sockets.

When passengers noticed smoke in the S4 bogey passengers were in a hurry to get off the train. In the process, some passengers, in their hurry alight, fell down. In S4 and S5 coaches, the passengers panicked as the flames kept rising and rushed out of the bogey screaming.

In this fire incident, passengers lost their valuables, goods and luggage as coaches were gutted. Some of them had also lost educational certificates and important documents and are coming to Hyderabad to attend their job interviews. Parents were seen rushing out holding on to their young children.