Overview
- Two internal loco/trolley trains collided during a night shift change inside the Pipalkoti tunnel at THDC’s Vishnugad–Pipalkoti hydropower project in Chamoli.
- District Magistrate Gaurav Kumar updated the toll to 88 injuries out of 109 people on board, with officials reporting no life‑threatening cases.
- Authorities said one train was transporting workers and officials and the other was carrying construction materials when they struck each other in the single-tunnel system.
- Most of the injured were treated and discharged, with PTI reporting 84 released after first aid and four still hospitalized following medical reviews at Gopeshwar and Pipalkoti facilities.
- Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami directed top care for the injured as the district administration ordered a magisterial probe and instructed the project to enforce strict safety standards.