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The piece of track that hit the passengers was one of the many lying a few metres away from the existing line, they added.“It seems miscreants placed this piece on the existing track in an upward position... The ‘bolt from the blue’ came from below the coach and hit the passengers between Bansipur and Kiul stations in Lakhisarai district around 3.30am. It pierced the floor of the compartment next to the engine the moment the train hit it,” Danapur deputy railway manager (DRM) Ranjan Prakash Thakur said, while terming the incident as ‘freak’. Traffic movement on the Down line was restored around 1pm after the glitch was fixed. The injured persons are Tridev Sahni (28) of Jata Kalisthan village in Samastipur district and Mukesh Kumar (27) of Simri Bakhtiarpur village in Saharsa district of Bihar..