By IANS,
Raipur: The iron ore supply on a key rail route was suspended Monday after suspected Maoists damaged a portion of tracks in insurgency-hit Chhattisgarh, a senior official said.
“The train movement on a lone rail line on Kirandul-Kottavalasa (K-K line) under Waltair division of the East Coast Railway (ECR) was suspended after 17 wagons of a goods train derailed with three engines at around 1.30 a.m. Monday,” H.L Luwang, senior divisional commercial manager of the ECR, told IANS by phone.
The accident site is close to Dilimili station in restive Bastar region, some 330 km south of state capital Raipur. The rail authorities have said that Maoists damaged a 200 metre stretch of the tracks.
Luwang said the train was carrying iron ore to Andhra Pradesh port city Visakhapatnam from Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district-based Bailadila iron ore mines of National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC), India’s largest public sector iron ore producer and exporter.