Two youths died while two sustained injuries after they fell from Patliputra-lTT express near Itarsi in the wee hours on Thursday; incident occurred near Itarsi after four Jabalpur based youths fell but the reason of the incident remains unknown claimed Itarsi City police.
According to Itarsi City police four youths fell from speeding Patliputra-lTT express in the wee hours on Thursday.
On receipt of the information GRP and RPF Itarsi rushed to the spot and the victims were rushed to a nearby hospital in Itarsi and two of them were shifted to Hoshangabad hospital.
Soon after the four fell from the train passengers raised alarm and train was stopped to rescue the victims.
Police were not able to provide the details of the accident as the escaped youths are not in a situation to record their statements properly as one of the escaped victim claimed that they were trying to peep outside the train and fell but the reason was not confirmed by the police.
The victims are resident of Jabalpur. The train which the victims boarded at Jabalpur was scheduled to stop at Bhusawal. After the preliminary investigation the bodies were sent for the post mortem and case under section 174 of the CrPC was registered.
The deceased were in the age group of 20-25 years. The incident took place at around 4 am when the train was near Bangalia area of Itarsi.
One of the youth died in Itarsi who was identified as Rahul Kaul while the other youth died at the Hoshangabad hospital whose identified was yet to be established. It is possible that the youths were in inebriated state and scuffled over some issue due to which they fell.