UP Stone hurled at Vande Bharat Express train for third time in two months

Agra | Wednesday | 20th February, 2019

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The local police is probing the matter.”Earlier, during a trial run between Delhi and Agra in December last year, stones were hurled at the train as well. A similar incident occurred earlier that month too.After the first incident of stone throwing, the Railway Protection Force (RPF) had started campaigns across the areas where such cases were reported. AGRA: Unidentified miscreants pelted stones at newly-launched semi-high-speed Vande Bharat while it was on its way to Varanasi on Wednesday.In the incident, a windowpane of the train was broken, but fortunately no passenger was injured.The incident took place at around 8am near Hirangaon railway station ( Firozabad ) under Tundla police jurisdiction.The matter came to the light after a passenger posted a tweet about the broken windowpane of the train tagging the railway ministry.Speaking to TOI, North Central Railway's chief public relation officer Gaurav Krishan Bansal said, “An unidentified person threw stone at the train, breaking the windowpane, fortunately no passenger was injured..