Vande Bharat Express being repaired after the buffalo hit on Thursday.
New Delhi:
The Vande Bharat Express on the Gandhinagar-Mumbai route hit a cow near Anand station in Gujarat on Friday, a day after it hit a heard of buffaloes on the same route. There was only a small dent in the train’s front bumper, officials told news agency PTI.
In Thursday’s incident, the newly launched semi-high-speed train had hit four buffaloes and its nose cone had come off. But it proceeded without much ado as damage to the nose — a bumper made of plastic — did not hinder its working.
The latest incident took place at 3.48 pm near Anand, about 432 km from Mumbai.
“The train’s front portion has suffered a small dent,” Sumit Thakur, chief public relations officer of Western Railway, said, adding that all the passengers were safe.