An unidentified man was run over and killed by a Metro train while he was allegedly trying to cross the track at Tilak Nagar Metro Station on Saturday. The incident took place around 2.45 pm. The man had purchased a ticket till Anand Vihar Metro Station and was waiting on platform number 2, while he should have waited at platform 1, said police, adding that when someone told him that the train would come on the other platform, he rushed and managed to cross one of the tracks. When he reached the other track, train from Dwarka approached and ran over him, police added.
He was rushed to a hospital where he was declared brought dead. So far police did not recover any document or mobile phone from the man’s possession, with which his identity could be ascertained, official said. Metro services were briefly disrupted following the incident, a Delhi Metro official said.