Five run over by train

Press Trust of India  |  Jaipur 

Five persons were run over by a speeding train at Sawimadhopur Railway Station in today.

Two others were injured in the incident, railway police said.


The victims were passengers of the Jaipur-Bayana Express which halted at platform no. 1.

Few passengers got down from the train on the railway track side instead of the platform side and were run over by the Gandhidham-superfast express which was passing at a high speed from the station, the SHO of GRP Railway station Kishanlal said.

Four of the five deceased were identified as Kamal (19), Nitesh (14), Man Singh and (both 35), he said.

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