Two passengers died under two separate tragic circumstances at the railway station here on Wednesday morning sending shockwaves among co-passengers and onlookers.
One was killed after slipping from train while boarding it and the other died falling from a running train while alighting from it.
While both died within three hours from each other, the trains involved in the two cases were the same Durant Express.
According to the Railway police, Trinath Kumar Naik (45) of Salepur died when he slipped from the Bhubaneswar-New Delhi Durant Express around 9 am and lingaraj Pradhan of Balichandrapur died after falling from the Jaswantpur-Howrah Durant Express around 12 noon.
Cuttack railway DSP Trinath Mishra added that both the passengers had sustained multiple injuries after coming under the wheels of the trains.