- By Nidhi Giri
- Sat, 09 Nov 2024 04:35 PM (IST)
- Source:JND
Bihar News: In a shocking incident at Barauni Junction in Bihar's Begusarai, a railway porter was killed during a shunting operation on Saturday, police said. The man has been identified as Amar Kumar Rao, a porter working at the station under the Sonpur Railway Division. The unfortunate incident happened when Rao was performing his duties on platform 5 as the Lucknow-Barauni Express (No: 15204) arrived from Lucknow Junction.
The accident occurred when Rao was attempting to open the coupling of the train. The train unexpectedly reversed, trapping him between the carriages, NDTV reported, quoting railway sources.
An alarm was raised by onlookers, however, the train driver reportedly exited the train and fled the scene, failing to reverse the engine or take any action to prevent the accident. Rao was crushed by the moving engine and died on the spot.
Visuals from the scene showed Rao trapped between two coaches while bystanders clicked photos on their mobile phones. An investigation has been launched by railway authorities into the incident.
In another unrelated incident, four contract cleaning workers who were engaged in cleaning the railway track were trapped on a railway bridge and run over by the speeding Kerala Express at Shoranur in Kerala's Palakkad a few days back. The dead included two men and two women, all of them hailed from Salem in Tamil Nadu. Both the male cleaning workers were named Lekshman, while the women were identified as Valli and Rani.
According to the police, these casual cleaning staff were picking up the litter on the railway track on the Kochi bridge above the Bharatapuzha river when the accident occurred. Seeing the fast-approaching Kerala Express train coming from Delhi and bound for Thiruvananthapuram, the workers were unable to take cover and all four were killed instantly.
The accident came days after four passengers were injured after an explosion occurred inside a Rohtak-Delhi passenger train.
An official said that the explosion took place near the Sampla station soon after the train departed from Rohtak station. Eyewitnesses added that the sudden explosion led to a chaotic scene while the train was immediately halted. Reports suggested that the blast may have resulted from a large quantity of chemicals that a passenger was carrying which had accidentally ignited and caused the explosion.
