A 43-year-old woman was run over by an oncoming train while she was fleeing from a monkey that had attacked her at Hempur depot railway station in Uttarakhand’s Udham Singh Nagar district, Wednesday, a senior official said.
Kamala Devi, a resident of Kosi Gate in Nainital’s Ramnagar area, was sitting on a bench in the shade of a tree at the station when a monkey jumped upon her, Parag Madhukar Dhakate, acting director of Corbett Tiger Reserve, said.
Dhakate, quoting the local sources, said the simian attacked the woman when she tried to shoo it away. Panicked, the woman frantically ran towards the railway tracks when she was hit by an oncoming Moradabad-Ramanagar train, he said.
The wheel sliced her into two.
Kamla’s husband had died 10 years ago and she had been granted an ex-gratia job in the Military Engineer Services (MES). She used to commute by bus from Ramnagar to Hempur for work. She is survived by two sons and two daughters.
