hyderabad a day after its highprofile launch a multimodal transport system mmts train derailed after ramming into two buffaloes near the borabanda station in the city on sundayrunning at a speed of 70 kmph the train ran into a herd of cattle at 1115 am soon after it moved out of the borabanda station none of the 250 passengers most of them enjoying a sunday ride on the citys latest acquisition was hurt in the accident the train was on its way from secunderabad to lingampallythough the driver applied brakes the train came to a halt only after two wheels next to the drivers cabin came loose on impact the passengers were later moved to another mmts train that was running on a parallel trackthe derailment may not be a stray case as prevention of such incidents involving trespassing of cattle on the tracks is practically an impossible task for the railways no security measures can be taken to prevent stray cattle coming on to the tracks the track has been laid at a height of about 15 feet and if the cattle still trespass no railway in the world can do anything south central railway general manager stanley babu said on sunday with the introduction of mmts the once quiet secunderabadlingampally section where only a handful of trains were running is now suddenly witnessing an increase in the train traffic up to 48 mmts trips a day 24 in each directionthe accident hence could have resulted as neither the state government nor the railways took up a safety campaign in the localities that lie along the mmts line safety precautions such as telling people to keep away from the tracks as well as to keep household animals and pets from crossing the tracks are required in view of the sudden increase in the number of trains on the secunderabadlingampally sectionat a press conference addressed by junior railway minister bandaru dattatreya scr chief operations manager ashok gupta admitted that he could not recollect when the last safety drive along the tracks was taken up though he said the railways regularly distributes pamphlets in residential areas along the railway tracks asking people not to trespass he could not recollect if such a campaign was taken up along the mmts linedescribing the accident as unfortunate dattatreya said the sections of the track where there could be people and animal traffic would be fenced such accidents should not recur as they can create doubts about the new transport system in the minds of people he saidadmitting that permanent measures were required to prevent recurrence of accidents dattareya said i have also asked the scr safety officials to inspect the entire system and submit a report in the next 10 day what if some people suddenly come on to the trackhe said two road underbridges and four road overbridges were required for the safety of people who cross the mmts track