2nd roof traveller killed in 7 days on harbour line

Railway sources said Yunus Khan climbed on the roof of the train at Gowandi station. As the train halted at platform 3 of Vashi station at 9.40 am,he tried to climb down but ended up touching a high-tension overhead wire.

“The Gowandi resident was working in Vashi,” railway police at Vashi said.

This is the second such electrocution near Vashi in the past seven days and 10th of the year in the Central Railway suburban section. On October 12,18-year-old Sayeed Ahmed Sheikh,travelling on the roof of a Panvel-CST local,was electrocuted at Gowandi station in a similar fashion.