New Delhi: So far 290 passengers have been killed in the Karmandal Exercise accident in Odisha. Thousands of people have been injured. But a driver of Karmandal Express has survived the horrific accident. Many have discussed that he is certainly saved from death because of the rice on his forehead. Fortunately that driver is Rk Mondal. Mondal was working as a driver of the South Eastern Railway. It is learnt that on the day of the accident, mandal ran the Karmandal Express train up to Kharagpur station.
The Karmandal Express left for Chennai from Shalimar station at 2.45pm on Friday. In fact, drivers are assigned to a particular station to run a train. Mondal too finished his work at Kharagpur station and left the driver’s seat to another driver. About an hour and a half after RK Mandal left the driver’s seat, the Karmandal Express train met with a fatal accident.
