According to the Railway Ministry, the passenger footfall in the Delhi-Lahore Samjhauta Express, also popularly known as the Delhi-Atari Express, has fallen drastically as hardly a hundred passengers travelled on Monday.
New Delhi: Following the February 14 terror attack on a CRPF convoy in Jammu and Kashmir`s Pulwama in which 40 troopers were killed, the `Samjhauta Express` between India and Pakistan has become an “immediate casualty”.
According to the Railway Ministry, the passenger footfall in the Delhi-Lahore Samjhauta Express, also popularly known as the Delhi-Atari Express, has fallen drastically as hardly a hundred passengers travelled on Monday.
The peace train comprises six sleeper coaches and an AC 3-tier coach. However, when the train arrived at the Attari railway station in Punjab at India`s International Border, most of the sleeper coaches were almost empty with only a few passengers.