Two killed after being hit by train

LUCKNOW - It was their hastiness to alight from the train before it stopped at a station that proved fatal. Two rail passengers were killed Saturday when they were hit by another train while alighting from a train in Uttar Pradesh’s Shahjahanpur district, officials said.

The accident took place near Shahjahanpur railway station when five passengers of the Jammu-Varanasi Express were getting down from the train, which was at a slow speed. They were hit by the Haridwar-Howrah Express which was coming from behind on another track.

While two were killed, three passengers were grievously injured.

“It appears that the five passengers failed to notice the Haridwar-Howrah Express,” Government Railway Police (GRP) inspector Arvind Singh told reporters in Shahjahanpur, some 150 km from here.

“Three passengers are being treated at the Shahjahanpur District Hospital. Their condition is stated to be critical. The accident could have been averted if the passengers had waited for a while to get down from the train at a proper stoppage,” he said.