New Delhi, Sept. 7 (PTI): A Delhi-bound Rajdhani went off the tracks near Minto bridge here on Thursday, hours after seven coaches of the Shaktipunj Express derailed in Uttar Pradesh, Indian Railways said.

No casualties were reported in the two accidents.

The 12439 Ranchi-Delhi Rajdhani Express, which runs via Bokaro, was barely half a kilometre from New Delhi railway station, travelling at 5km per hour, when the engine derailed at around 11.45am.

”The engine and power car are affected. Since the speed of the train was very low, there was no injury to any passenger,” said Neeraj Sharma, Northern Railways spokesperson.

The other Ranchi-Delhi Rajdhani, 12453, runs on Thursdays and Sundays, taking a longer 1345km route.

Earlier in the morning, seven coaches of the Jabalpur- bound Shaktipunj Express had derailed in Sonbhadra district of Uttar Pradesh, around 80km from Varanasi.

”The accident occurred at around 6.25am this morning and we have already cleared out the site. All passengers were put on the remaining coaches and by 7.28am all of them had left the spot. All of them are safe and no one was injured in the accident,” said railway ministry spokesperson Anil Saxena.

The train, coming from Howrah, was running at a speed of about 40km per hr, so no one was injured when the tail coaches derailed.

Sonbhadra shares its border with four states—Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Bihar— and has a history of Left-wing extremist activities, but the police are ruling out this angle for now.

The Shaktipunj derailement was the third such in Uttar Pradesh in less than a month, On August 19, the Kalinga Utkal Express derailed in Muzaffarnagar district, killing 22 people. On August 23, the Kaifiat Express derailed in Auraiya district.

The derailments of the Rajdhani and the Shaktipunj Express are the first two accidents after Piyush Goyal took over as the new railways minister this week.

(This report was updated at 6.40pm.)