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This is an archive article published on June 5, 2013
5 killed while crossing rail tracks
Five members of a family,including three children,were crushed to death under a Rajdhani Express in Firozabad on Monday night when they were trying to cross the track after alighting from another train.
Written by Express News Service
Lucknow | June 5, 2013 01:59 AM IST
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Five members of a family,including three children,were crushed to death under a Rajdhani Express in Firozabad on Monday night when they were trying to cross the track after alighting from another train.
The deceased were identified as Nisar Khan (55),his brother Naushad Khan,Naushad’s son Younus (8) and his daughters Yasmin (7) and Rukhsar (10). The bodies were found by the GRP officials in mutilated condition.
GRP officials said the family had come to Firozabad from Bihar,where they had gone to attend a marriage.
The incident took place around 8.30 pm just after they alighted from Kalka Express away from the platform and tried to cross another track to go out of the railway station.
Firozabad GRP station officer Vijay Singh Chak said while four bodies were recovered from Firozabad railway station,one was found a few kilometres away near Makhanpur railway station as it had got dragged by the train. Chak said Naushad and his brother worked as labourers in Firozabad.
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