meerut a passenger train on its way to delhi carrying hundreds of people caught fire in uttar pradesh on saturday morning once the train stopped at daurala station hundreds of commuters of the 14bogey delhisaharanpur passenger train got down and pushed the rest of the bogies away from the two burning compartments to prevent them from catching fire and spreading to the engine it took about three hours to douse the flames no one was injured while officials remained tightlipped about the cause of the incident passengers travelling in the train said that the transformer in the power engine present in the middle of the train caught fire first and spread to the two compartments that were just behind the engine the fire was observed by the passengers as well as the gateman after the train left the sakauti station for daurala on the outskirts of meerut at 7amthe distance between the two is around 10km later senior officials including divisional railway manager drm dimpy garg reached the spot from delhi amit jain a passenger enroute to delhi on the burning train said a strong smell had started entering the fourth compartment about 4km after the train left sakauti station sakauti is 10km ahead of daurala station when we looked out of the window we saw the power engine attached in between the bogies had caught fire gateman islamuddin ahmad also saw the fire and informed daurala station authorities by the time the train had reached daurala fire began to spread the fire extinguishers inside the train were insufficientwe helped railway staff break the couplings from both sides of the burning bogies and all of us pushed the remaining bogies away from them there were hundreds of commuters all of us joined hands in this task said mohd aslam a saharanpur resident drm dimpy garg said we received information about sparks in the train that probably caused the fire although its still too early to say anything right now a high level panel has been constituted to probe the cause of fire all passengers are safe and have been provided with another train