Tikamgarh (PTI): A 26-year-old woman in Tikamgarh district allegedly killed her two-year-old son by throwing him into a pond and then hanged herself from a tree on Sunday, police said.

The incident occurred under the Baldeogarh police station area limits, police officer Preeti Bhargav told PTI.

Preliminary investigations revealed that Santoshi Lodhi used to quarrel frequently with her husband, and allegedly took the extreme step due to family discord.

Police are investigating the case from various angles, Bhargav added.

(Assistance for overcoming suicidal thoughts is available on the state’s health helpline 104, Tele-MANAS 14416.)

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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.