18 crushed to death by train in Gujarat

By IANS

Surat : At least 18 people, including three women and two children, were crushed to death by a train in Udhna town of Gujarat’s Surat district, railway officials said.

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The accident occurred at South Kankrakhadi in Udhna, about three kilometres from Surat, at about 11 p.m. Wednesday.

Those dead were reportedly labourers and their families who had come to Udhana in the Taptiganga Express that runs from Varanasi to Surat, officials said.

After getting off the train at Udhana station, the people were walking on the railway track when they were run over by a train.

The driver of Flying Rani, a train from Mumbai to Surat, spotted the dead bodies and alerted railway authorities.