Coconut thrown from local train kills pedestrian
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Palghar (PTI): A 31-year-old pedestrian died after he was struck by a coconut thrown carelessly from a local train passing the Bhayandar creek bridge in Palghar district of Maharashtra, officials said on Sunday.
The coconut was apparently part of 'Nirmalya' (sacred floral offerings) thrown in the direction of the creek on Saturday morning.
The victim, Sanjay Dattaram Bhoir, was walking along the railway bridge, reportedly to go to work. Prima facie, he was using the railway bridge as an alternative route to reach Naigaon from Panju island, as boat service had been suspended due to inclement weather, officials said.
A passenger on a local train, presumably immersing Nirmalya in the creek, threw a coconut, which struck Bhoir directly between his ear and eye. Bhoir was immediately rushed to a private hospital in Vasai after the incident. However, due to the severity of his head injury, his condition deteriorated, and he was subsequently transferred to JJ Hospital in Mumbai for advanced treatment.
Despite medical efforts, he died during the course of his treatment, officials added.
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Five railway staffers injured as van headed to Rajdhani Express fire site overturns in MP
Ratlam (MP) (PTI): Five railway staffers were injured, one of them critically, when their van carrying repair equipment to the site of a Rajdhani Express fire overturned in Madhya Pradesh's Ratlam district on Sunday, officials said.
The blaze erupted in an AC coach of the Delhi-bound Thiruvananthapuram-Hazrat Nizamuddin Rajdhani Express between Vikramgarh Alot and Lunirichha stations under the Kota division of the railways in Ratlam at 5.15 am.
It disrupted the movement of several trains on the Mumbai-Delhi route, as per the officials.
A van carrying necessary equipment to Alot overturned on the way when a cow suddenly strayed into the middle of the road, they said.
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Five railwaymen were injured, one of them critically, the officials said.
The incident took place when the van carrying essential equipment for overhead electric line repair, among other things, was on its way to Alot from Shyamnagar in Ratlam, West Central Railway's chief public relations officer Harshit Shrivastava told PTI.
The injured persons were rushed to the hospital and were subsequently referred to Kota in Rajasthan, officials said.
No casualties were reported in the train fire.
