Patna,(BiharTimes): Muzaffarpur railway station escaped a major accident on Wednesday when a portion of road overbridge just about 100 metres from the platform caved in and fell on a goods train underneath badly damaging about half a dozen carriages. About two dozen people, some of them seriously, were reported to have been injured in the incident.

In a similar mishap on June 21, 2007 about three dozen passengers of Jamalpur-Howrah Express were killed and many others injured when a portion of 140-year old overbridged fell on the train as it was approaching the Bhagalpur railway station. In fact the bridge was in the process of being dismantled. Though the work to dismantle was not going on at the time of the passage of that train yet the accident took place.

However, Muzaffarpur was a bit lucky on Wednesday as a goods train was underneath the bridge. This overbridge was only 40 years old.

The incident took place around 1.30 PM in Maripur locality under Qazi Mohammadpur police station, Most of the injured were pedestrians and occupants of two auto rickshaws, who went down with the collapsed portion of the ROB and fell on the goods train passing underneath.

Muzaffarpur district magistrate Anupam Kumar and senior superintendent of police Saurabh Kumar, reached the spot