Thursday, January 23, 2025 - Eleven people were killed on Wednesday, Jan. 22, after rumours of a fire on their train caused them to jump off and they were crushed to death by another incoming train, officials said.
The incident occurred in the western Maharashtra state.
“People were run over by a train,” said Ayush Prasad, a top
official of Jalgaon district where the accident occurred, about 400 kilometres
from the country’s financial hub of Mumbai.
“11 people have died and about five are undergoing
treatment.”
It was not immediately clear whether the fire alarm was
false.
A spokesperson for Indian Railways was quoted by local media
as having said that someone had pulled the “alarm chain” on a Mumbai-bound
train, following which “a few passengers got down from the train”.
“At that moment, they were run over by another train going
in the opposite direction,” the spokesperson said.
India’s interior minister Amit Shah expressed his “deepest
condolences to the families of those who lost their lives in this accident”.
Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis said the
“tragic incident” was “deeply disturbing”.
“Deeply saddened by the tragic loss of lives,” he said in a
post on X.
In 2023, nearly 300 people were killed when a passenger
train and a stationary goods train collided, with the derailed compartments
then striking another fast-moving passenger service.
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