Elderly Woman Run Over By Train In Punjab's Phagwara

IANS, 22 Jun, 2018 05:08 PM

A 60-year-old woman died after she fell, and was run over by a train, while trying to board it again.

Government Railway Police (GRP) incharge Gurbhej Singh identified the woman as Kamla of Dehradun, Uttrakhand.

He said that she was travelling to Beas with a group of pilgrims in the Haridwar passenger train.

She got down at the Phagwara railway station to fetch drinking water and slipped while trying to re-board the train last night, the GRP official said.

He said that her body was handed over to her family after post-mortem.

A case under Section 174 CrPC was also registered, Mr Singh said.

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