Five persons were crushed to death while one another was battling for his life when they all jump to safe their lives after seeing smoke in the coach in which they were traveling but unfortunately met a tragic end. A case was registered in this regard and all the five bodies were sent for post-mortem examination.
Reports said that some passengers traveling from on Delhi bound Jansadharan Express saw thick smoke coming from the wheels on their coach between Jaswantnagar and Palrai railway stations at Etawah in the wee hours of Wednesday. They pulled the chain and as the train stopped, some passengers jumped fearing threat to their lives. However they were caught unaware that Rajdhani Express was about to pass on the adjacent track. Reports said that half a dozen of them were hit by the train out of which five were crushed to death after coming under the wheels while one another who was hit by the boggey was seriously injured and shifted to Medical College in Agra where his condition was stated to be critical. According to cops of the Jaswantnagar police station who reached the spot after learning of the incident claimed that they identified three of the victims as Sarita Devi and her daughter Sweety, both residents of Dharauwa hamlet of Patna in Bihar and Vijay Mandal, a resident of Banka district of Bihar. The other two victims were yet to be identified.
Meanwhile one person was also murdered under mysterious circumstances in Azamgarh in the wee hours of Wednesday. According to reports, some unknown miscreants struck at the house of one Chandra Shekhar (45), a native of Chaukanna hamlet of Maharajpur and brutally stabbed him to death. The miscreants also shot the victim before fleeing from the spot. local police which rushed to the spot claimed after investigation that the miscreants came with a motive to kill the victim as they not just stabbed Chandra Shekhar but also opened fire to ensure that he should not remain alive. They claimed that modus operandi showed that the killers were known to the victim hence they feared that if he remained alive than they will find themselves in trouble. A case was registered in this regard and further investigations are on.