Gooty Railway Accident

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The Gooty railway accident on December 21, 2002 was the attack on an express train near the city of Gooty in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh . 20 people were killed.

Starting position

The train of South Central Railway ran between Hyderabad and Bangalore . About 15 km from Gooty train station , a section of track had been sawn out of the track of a new line that had only been opened to traffic six months earlier and the gap had been covered. The police later found used saw blades from a fretsaw nearby and suspected that it would have taken the assassin (s) several days to saw through the rail .

Accident

The locomotive and nine of the 23 wagons on the train derailed from the missing track at a speed of around 90 km / h at around 1 a.m. when it crossed this point. The derailed vehicles were badly damaged. 20 people died and more than 80 others were injured, 30 of them seriously.

consequences

As a result, no one came forward to “take responsibility” for the attack. So the motive and perpetrator initially remained unknown. 13 months after the crime, a man was arrested in connection with another attack, who was close to the Islamist terrorist organization Laschkar-e Taiba and who was accused of having committed the attack on the train. The “proof” of this, provided by a combination of electroencephalography and lie detector , is not generally accepted as evidence.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b NN: Train accident in India: At least 20 dead. In: news.at v. December 21, 2002.
  2. ↑ a b NN: Indian police probe train derailment. In: BBC News World Edition v. December 24, 2002;
    D. Sreenivasulu: Sabotage Theory Gains Credence. In: The Hindu . December 23, 2002.
  3. ↑ Train derails in southern India. In: BBC News World Edition. December 21, 2002.
  4. ↑ NN: Brain test Carried out on Lashkar suspect. ( Memento of March 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) In: Daily Times. January 20, 2004.

Coordinates: 15 ° 17 ′ 5.5 ″  N , 77 ° 36 ′ 6.9 ″  E