Four passengers dead after falling off Mumbai local train, Railways initiates inquiry

Four passengers died after falling off a suburban train near Mumbra in Maharashtra’s Thane district, IANS reported.

Two more passengers are seriously injured, the news agency quoted Kailas Pawar, a surgeon at the district hospital as saying.

The persons onboard a local train fell on the railway tracks, Central Railway’s Chief Public Relations Officer Swapnil Neela said, according to PTI. The incident took place on fast train tracks between Mumbra and Diwa.

“It is not a collision,” the railway official said. “In this incident, the passengers travelling on footboards in trains in opposite directions got entangled. This is one of the suspected reasons for the incident, as informed by a passenger… The distance between two trains is 1.5-2 meters, but on curves, a slight tilt happens, and this could be an additional reason for the incident.”

Pawar said that 13 persons were injured in the incident, IANS reported. Seven of them are admitted to the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Hospital in Thane’s Kalwa area, he added.

The railway official said that one of the trains involved in the incident was heading to the town of Kasara in Thane district from Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus. The other train was going towards Mumbai.

It was unclear if passengers who had fallen on the tracks were from both trains.

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