Overview

• Unidentified robbers attempted to stop the Bhubaneswar–Secunderabad Visakha Express at around 3 a.m. on June 29 by pulling the chain on the S1 coach near Tummalapalem.
• Government Railway Police and Railway Protection Force officers on escort duty discharged nine warning rounds after the gang pelted stones at pursuing personnel.
• The suspects scattered into nearby fields and villages under cover of darkness, evading immediate arrest.
• A coordinated hunt by GRP, RPF and Palnadu district police is now focusing on the Piduguralla–Nadikudi corridor to apprehend the culprits.
• This marks the area’s second attempted train robbery in five days, following a chain-pulling bid on another Andhra service two days earlier.