At least eight persons were killed and 14 others injured after a passenger train collided with a goods train near Bilaspur station in Chhattisgarh on Tuesday. The incident took place around 4 pm when the MEMU (mainline electric multiple unit) passenger train was heading to Bilaspur from Gevra (in neighbouring Korba district). Eyewitnesses said impact of the collision was so severe that a coach of the passenger train ended up on top of a wagon of the cargo train. When the passenger train was between Gatora and Bilaspur railway stations it rammed into a goods train from behind.
