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Four passengers died after falling off a suburban train near Mumbra in Maharashtra’s Thane district on Monday, IANS reported.
Two more passengers are seriously injured, the news agency quoted Kailas Pawar, a surgeon at the district hospital as saying.
The persons onboard a local train fell on the railway tracks, Central Railway’s Chief Public Relations Officer Swapnil Neela said, according to PTI. The incident took place on fast train tracks between Mumbra and Diva.
“It is not a collision,” the railway official said. “In this incident, the passengers travelling on footboards in trains in opposite directions got entangled. This is one of the suspected reasons for the incident, as informed by a passenger… The distance between two trains is 1.5-2 meters, but on curves, a slight tilt happens, and this could be an additional reason for the incident.”
Pawar said that 13 persons were injured in the incident, IANS reported. Seven of them are admitted to the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Hospital in Thane’s Kalwa area, he added.
The railway official said that one of the trains involved in the incident was heading to the town of Kasara in Thane district from Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus. The other train was going towards Mumbai.
It was unclear if passengers who had fallen on the tracks were from both trains.
The railways were informed about the incident by a guard on a train headed to Kasara at 9.30 am and ambulances reached the spot at 9.50 am, Neela said.
“We have seen that sometimes passengers travel standing on the footboard even when there is space in the train,” Nila said.
Nila added: “All new local train rakes are air conditioned and have automatic door closure facility. We are trying to ensure that no such incident happens again.”
The railway board has decided that all rakes already in service will be retrofitted with the door closure facility, the railway official told reporters.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said that the Railways have initiated an inquiry to look into the cause of the accident.
About 37.62 lakh passengers travelled on Mumbai suburban trains operated by the Central Railway in 2023-’24, while 27.24 passengers travelled on trains operated by the Western Railway, according to The Times of India.
Last year, Mumbai’s suburban train network recorded 2,468 deaths, or more than six fatalities every day, the newspaper reported.
This article first appeared on Scroll.in
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