Accident site area considered 'stable stretch': Kumar

New Delhi, June 24: Railway minister Nitish Kumar
today said the area near yesterday's accident site in the
Konkan railway was considered a "stable stretch" and no
netting of the steep slope had been done by authorities.

"According to Konkan railways it was a stable stretch
which was not prone to landslides.....And no netting had been
done", Kumar told a news channel.

In fact, he said, a little distance from the accident
site, the railways had taken all precatuions for loose
boulders.

At least 51 persons were killed in one of the worst-ever
accidents on the Konkan railway network involving
Karwar-Mumbai central holiday special on Sunday.

Bureau Report