India inaugurated its high-speed train but on its first trip, it crashed a cow

The fastest train of India went into service this Saturday, but the trip had to be suspended by hitting a cow. This is what happened when he was coming back from his trip to go, just one day after the inauguration ceremony led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The Vande Bharat Express, built in India, runs between New Delhi and Varanasi. The service, which previously operated with conventional training, is used by 23 million people everyday.

Prime Minister Modi and the inaugural delegation traveled from the capital to Varanasi on Friday, but this Saturday, on the return trip, the locomotive crushed a cow, leaving the four cars without light, in addition to damage the braking system.

The train could arrive later than planned at its destination in New Delhi "safely," said a spokeswoman for the company, Smita Vats Sharma, to the newspaper AFP.

Accidents with cows, a sacred animal in India, they are frequent on routes and railway lines, especially in the state of Uttar Pradesh, where this incident occurred.

The Vande Bharat Express can reach a speed of 180 kilometers per hour. The journey between New Delhi and Varanasi, sacred city of Hinduism on the banks of the Ganges, lasts 850 km.