Woman falls between platform and moving train in Telangana, dies
A 33-year-old woman died at Telangana's Cherlapally railway station after falling between a moving train and the platform on Sunday. The woman passenger fell between the moving train and the platform while trying to get off the Janmabhoomi Express and board another coach of the train.
The deceased, identified as Mattala Swetha, a native of Dondapudi in Anakapalli district in Andhra Pradesh and resident of HMT Township in Lingampally, was on her way to her in-laws' in Rajahmundry with her two children when the mishap occurred. Swetha and her children were going to their native place to spend the summer vacation, said an official.
According to the Secunderabad Government Railway Police, the incident occurred at around 7.40 am. Swetha's husband Venkatesh helped her and the children board coach D-3 at Lingampally, and later Swetha realised that they were supposed to board coach D-8. When the train reached Cherlapally railway station, she deboarded the train to move to D-8.
'She was in the process of shifting herself and the children to D-8 when the incident happened. After boarding the children, the train started to move as she was about to board. She fell between the platform and the train,' an official said, adding that the victim died on the spot.
As the train had already picked up speed, she slipped and her body fell into the gap. She sustained a head injury, fractured waist, and severed leg, and died on the spot. While Swetha was a homemaker, her husband Venkatesh is employed at a private firm. The GRP staff shifted the body to Gandhi Hospital for post-mortem examination. The case is under investigation. The body was handed over to the family after the post-mortem formalities.
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