Three persons were injured after a passenger train collided with a goods train near Bilaspur station in Chhattisgarh Tuesday, railway officials said.

Police officials, however, said that several other passengers sustained injuries in the accident and some of them were still trapped under a coach of the passenger train.

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), the railway officials said.

When the train was between Gatora and Bilaspur railway stations, the passenger train rammed into a goods train from behind, they said.

The railway authorities have mobilised all resources at the spot, and required measures are being taken for the treatment of the injured person

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