Kannur/Lucknow: A three-member team of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) reached here on Tuesday to collect details in connection with the recent fire incident in the Alappuzha – Kannur Executive Express' D1 coach.
The officers are from the Kochi and Bengaluru offices of NIA, reported Manorama News. Railway Protection Force IG G M Eswara Rao also conducted an examination of the train bogie in which the incident happened. NIA too did their share of checks within the same bogie, post his visit.
As per reports, there are chances of NIA taking over the investigation of the incident, which caused three deaths and injured nine people.
The suspect, who is probably a UP native, is still absconding and the police say he travelled from Kannur to Mangalore and then to Delhi, after committing the crime.
Two out of the nine injured in the fire have now left hospitals. While the seven others are still under treatment, one person's condition is serious, as per reports.
Meanwhile, the Anti-Terrorist Squad on Tuesday questioned 25-year-old Shahrukh Saifi from Uttar Pradesh in connection with the incident and was later released.
