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| September 1, 2009 | Disrupted Mumbai railway service resumes partially | | Mumbai: The train services along the Western Railway
route resumed partially on Tuesday, hours after police had to resort to a baton
charge and firing in the air to disperse irate passengers. The Chief Public Relations
Officer of the Western Railway, S.S. Gupta, told a television channel that police
and railway officers were trying their best to restore normalcy along the railway
route. Gupta said that trains were now moving smoothly up to the Vasai Railway
Station. Earlier, the Police had to resort to firing in the air and baton charging
irate passengers at the Nala Sopara Railway Station in Thane District, as the
passengers expressed their anger over the delay and disruption of local train
services. Police first baton charged the mob and then fired in the air. No casualties
were immediately reported from the venue of the incident. Nala Sopara is a city
and a municipal council in Thane district. It is a town within the Mumbai Conurbation.
The population of the city is 184,664 (2001 census). It is also the name of a
railway station on the Mumbai suburban railway on the Western Railway Railway
line.
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