Two Trains Kill 5 at Ghaziabad
Five railway employees, Ramesh, Ram Rattan, Pooran, Ajay and Radhey, working on maintainance of Ghaziabad railway tracks , couldn’t see two trains speeding towards them and got hit and were killed at the spot. At around 11.10 a.m. “They were doing maintenance work on the tracks,” Anant Swarup, chief public relations officer of Northern Railways, stated when the accident occurred.
“Five gang men were engaged in repairing track number three, when they heard the sound of an approaching train. As the visibility was low due to fog, the workers thought the train was coming on track number three and they jumped on to track number four to save themselves,” an official was heard saying.
“Unfortunately there was a train – Dehradun-Delhi Jan Shatabdi Express – coming on track number four. With trains on both tracks, the workers had no chance of getting away and were crushed under the two trains,” he added.
When interrogated, the driver said that massive fog impaired his visibility. “A complaint has been registered with Indirapuram police station in Ghaziabad,” said circle officer R.K. Gautam.
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