Railway Minister Laloo Prasad Yadav has announced a compensation of Rs 100,000 to the families of those killed in the Matsyagandha Express accident in the Konkan region of Maharashtra on Wednesday morning.
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The minister is rushing to the mishap site and all his engagements in the city for the day have been cancelled.
The minister, who was in Kolkata in connection with a railway award function, said those injured would be paid Rs 15,000.
Describing the accident as "unfortunate," the minister said he along with his ministers of state and Railway Board
Chairman R K Singh will reach the accident site in the afternoon.
Emphasising that action would be taken if any negligence was found to be the cause of the accident, the minister said: "We want to see whether precautions had been taken in the area which is a remote hilly region."
He also said that heavy rains in the area apparently led to a landslide which caused the accident.
