Woman dies in bid to board moving train

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Policemen inspect a car which collided with a mini-bus at Rohini in New Delhi on Tuesday.

A woman passenger died a painful death when she tripped and got stuck between the platform and a moving train at the Subzi Mandi Railway Station on Monday morning.
Police officials said the incident took place at around 8 am on Tuesday when a local passenger train chugging into Subzi Mandi Railway Station halted and the passengers waiting at the station boarded the train which was then flagged off.
“As the train started making its way out of the station, a woman passenger, identified as Seema, who worked with the social welfare department and was on her way to Sonepat, came rushing and tried to board the moving train,” said additional DCP (railway) B.S. Gurjar.
“While boarding, the woman tripped and fell in the gap between the platform and the moving train. The passengers witnessing the woman’s trauma started screaming at the driver, asking him to stop the train while some passengers pulled the chain to save the woman. The victim was badly injured in the incident,” a senior police official said.
As the train came to a halt, a posse of railway police and officials of Northern Railways rushed to the spot and a rescue operation was immediately started to take out the woman who was writhing in pain and bleeding profusely.
Officials said it took them almost 30 minutes to break the platform using gas cutters and other equipment.
The woman was then taken to Bara Hindu Rao hospital where she succumbed to her injuries during treatment.
“The rescue operation was swift but the victim had suffered multiple injuries. We had to break the platform to take her out,” Mr Gurjar said.
The victim was a resident of Kishengarh and her family has been informed about the accident. A similar incident had taken place at Hazrat Nizamuddin Railway Station last year when a trader got trapped between the moving train and platform and died.