Thursday, February 04, 2016

806 people died by falling off trains in 2015 in Mumbai...

A heart wrenching video of a 55-year-old woman, Kiran Kothari, falling to death from a train at Borivli station on January 15 recently got viral. However, Kothari is not the only one to have succumbed this way.

According to the statistics provided by the government railway police, as many as 2,500 persons had died after falling from trains in the past 3 years. In 2015, there were 806 such casualties, while 479 people had died natural death, reveals statistics.

According to the GRP statistics, in 2015 as many as 3349 people (including 588 women) have died in railway premises. Of them, 806 persons (including 66 women) had died by falling off trains, while 479 persons died naturally.

Last year, Dombivli resident Bhavesh Nakate had died by falling off train and his last minute video wherein he was seen trying desperately to get into a crowded compartment had gone viral. This incident prompted the authorities to take action on those commuters who travel on foot-boards. Full story...

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