LUCKNOW: A 22-year-old man fractured his leg after a stone hit him while he was travelling in Marudhar Express train.
The incident took place a few minutes after the train left from Bharatpur Junction in Rajasthan on Wednesday at around 5.20pm.
A video of the incident was shared on microblogging site Twitter by fellow his passengers, in which the Satendra Kumar was seen bleeding from his right leg. He was given first aid by his co-passengers.
About an hour later, when the train reached Agra Fort station, the youth was attended by a medical team who later shifted him to SN Medical College.
“I was returning from train lavatory when a stone hit my leg near the entrance door of the coach. I lost a lot of blood due to the delay in medical aid. After X-ray, the doctors at SNMC confirmed me that I suffered a fracture in my leg," Satendra said.
Satendra, a carpenter by profession, was heading to his hometown Hamirpur to attend his friend’s wedding.
Mahaveer Godara, a co-passenger said that even after informing the TTE, no medical aid was provided to the injured by the railway authorities.
The TTE had alerted the railway control room and the train made at least two brief halts at Achhnera and Idgah stations. When the train reached the Agra Fort station, Satendra was provided medical aid, Godara said.
Divisional commercial manager of the Agra division, S K Shrivastav said, “The passenger was attended by railway staff Dr Avantika at Agra Fort. Considering his critical condition, he was immediately shifted to SNMC.”
However, it was still not cleared as to how the passenger was hit by a stone. Interestingly, the GRP and RPF claimed that the youth was sitting on the entrance gate when a stone hit his leg.
"We believe the passenger was hit by stone while he was sitting on entrance of the coach," said SHO Omprakash Yadav of Agra Fort RPF.