New Delhi-Ajmer Shatabdi ran with a broken wheel; no casualty

One of the coaches of the New Delhi-Ajmer Shatabdi Express ran with a broken wheel for nearly eight kilometres.
The incident happened yesterday after the train left for Ajmer when a portion of one of the wheels of a coach broke and fell off, Chief Public Relations Officer of North Western Railway, Tarun Jain said today.
He said it was a generator coach with no passenger on board.
"Staff and gateman at one station from where the train was passing through noticed the abnormality in its movement following which the train was stopped at next station Jobner," he said.
"The coach was detached from the train which left for its destination after nearly 70 minutes," he said.

"An committee has been constituted to probe the matter," Jain said.