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<\/div>\nThe cigarette smoke triggered the fire alarm and activated automatic fire extinguisher<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Vande Bharat Express is in the news again, not for speeding up travel, stone attacks or collisions with cattle, but for a ticketless passenger who could not resist the craving for a cigarette during the journey.<\/p>\n
The train travelling from Tirupati in Andhra Pradesh to Secunderabad had just crossed Gudur and the destination was still more than eight hours away.<\/p>\n
A passenger had boarded the train without a valid ticket and had locked himself inside the toilet. He would have well made the journey free of cost, but a drag did him in. Unaware of fire alarms installed in the flagship train, he went to the toilet and lit a cigarette. Instantly, alarms started ringing and an automatic fire extinguisher went to work, spraying aerosol through the compartment.<\/p>\n
This sparked panic and passengers used the emergency phone in the compartment to alert the train guard. The train came to a halt near Manubulu station.<\/p>\n
Railway Police personnel swung into action with a fire extinguisher and broke the toilet’s window pane. Inside they found the passenger, whose drags had brought a train to halt and started a full-fledged rescue op. The busted smoker was detained at Nellore for further action and the train resumed its journey.<\/p>\n
Videos showed aerosol particles inside the coach and a shattered window, apparently a result of panic among passengers.<\/p>\n
“An unauthorised passenger boarded the train from Tirupati and locked himself in the toilet of the C-13 coach. He smoked inside the toilet which resulted in the automatic activation of an aerosol fire extinguisher inside the toilet,” an official from South Central Railway (SCR) Zone’s Vijayawada Division said in a statement.<\/p>\n
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