Ongole: Police foiled a robbery attempt in Chenna-bound Hyderabad-Chennai Express between Surareddypalem and Tanguturu in Prakasam district of Andhra Pradesh at 1.23 am on Thursday morning.
According to the Railway Police, the robbers halted the train by flashing a red signal.
The robbers put a few one rupee coins at a juncture where two railways tracks meet, near an automatic traffic signalling system, which then flashed the signal.
The train driver stopped the train.
The robbers also snatched a gold chain from one of the passengers.
When the train stopped, sub-inspector Bhavannarayana who was on duty began searching compartments in the train.
On seeing him, the robbers pelted stones at him, to which he retaliated and opened two rounds. However, they managed to flee.
Nobody was injured in the accident.
Earlier, the miscreants stopped Tirumala Express at the same place and tried pulling chain from a woman.
“About six robbers divided themselves into two groups. Three of them were travelling in the train along with passengers and observing others. When the train reached near
Suraredddypalem, two or three robbers alighted from the train and snatched a chain from the woman passenger,” said Railway Circle Inspector K.Venkateswara Rao.
