TAXILA: Rail traffic remained suspended on Jand-Attock section after one of the containers carrying crude oil derailed near Jand town of Attock on Saturday.

According to railway and Rescue 1122 authorities, as a result of derailing, oil splashed on the track.

On getting information, Rescue 1122 team with firefighters’ reached the spot and cordoned off the area. District Emergency Officer Attock Ali Hussain said that the container was carrying 43,332 liters of oil which started leaking soon after the incident.

The area was, however, secured to avert any untoward incident.

The emergency officer said that no causality was reported.

According to railway officials, due to derailment of one bogie of the goods train, the railway track leading to Attock, Kohat and Mianwali was temporarily closed for the traffic while rescue teams reached the site for restoration of the railway track.

The official said that as the site is located in the hilly, far flung and remote area, therefore the rescue teams took time to launch the restoration of rail traffic.

He said that different passenger and goods trains were halted at different stations during repair and rehabilitation work.

The railways officials said that heavy machinery moved to put the bogies back on track, adding that it would take them a few hours to restore the rail traffic.

An Attock-based railway official said no comment could be offered immediately about the cause of the derailment. It could be either a human error or failure of equipment, he said.

“A probe has been ordered and the inspector of railways will go to the site soon,” a senior officer of Peshawar railway division said.

Published in Dawn, January 22nd, 2023