Rourkela: An alert gangman saved the lives of many passengers boarded on the Tatanagar-Alleppey Express train from a serious mishap here today.

The train that was coming from Rourkela escaped from an accident after the gangman Ram Sreya Das raised an alarm detecting a crack on railway track near K cabin at Bondamunda diesel colony in the Steel City of Odisha.

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Sources said that the gangman rushed to the railway track with red flag following which the train driver stopped the train before meeting a major accident.

The train moved after the railway engineers repaired the tracks.

Sources said that the permanent repair work is underway by the railways.