New Delhi: Fire broke out in one of the coaches of a passenger train in the South Eastern Railway on May 29, making it the third such incident in a fortnight.

Railway Ministry sources said fire was reported in a coach on the Tatanagar-Bilaspur-Durg South Bihar Express near the Kalunga station near Rourkela.

There were no reports any casualty, the sources said adding the train was on the move when the fire broke out.

About 400 passengers of a local train in Ferozepur in Punjab had a miraculous escape on May 28 when the engine and three of its six bogies caught fire near.

On May 15, 38 people were killed and several injured when three coaches of Frontier Mail caught fire Ludhiana in Punjab.

PTI