After cattle hits, Vande Bharat Express train runs over woman in Gujarat

VADODARA/ ANAND: A middle-aged woman from Ahmedabad died after being run over by the Vande Bharat Express train near Anand railway station on Tuesday.
The victim, identified as Beatrice Archibald Peter, was crossing the railway track when the accident took place at 3.45 pm, railway police said. The Ahmedabad resident was visiting a relative in Anand. She was crossing a stretch of the track where platform number four, ends.
Sources said that locals often try to cross the railway track near Bhalej railway crossing to take a shorter route towards the nearby residential society. The deceased was a resident of Bhavdeep Apartment adjacent to Laxminarayan bus stand in Ahmedabad’s Maninagar area.
She was run over when the train which does not have a halt at Anand was on its way to Mumbai Central from Gandhinagar.
Anand railway police have registered a case of accidental death while further investigation is underway. The police have sent the body of the deceased for postmortem. Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off the semi high-speed train from Gandhinagar on September 30. After the inaugural run, there have been at least three incidents of the train hitting cattle on the track.
On October 6, the train had rammed into a herd of buffaloes between Vatva and Maninagar stations. The fibre-reinforced plastic of the nose of the train was damaged due to the incident. A day later, it hit a cow in the Kanjari-Boriyavi-Anand stretch of Anand district which caused a minor dent on the nose.
Earlier, railway minister Ashwini Vaishnavhad told students of a private engineering college that collision with cattle on the railway tracks was unavoidable.