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Punjab: 24-year-old man crushed by train in Fatehgarh Sahib

PATIALA: A twenty-four-year-old man was crushed by train in Mandi Gobindgarh town of district Fatehgarh Sahib on Tuesday evening while making attempt to cross the closed gates of the railway crossing .




The incident took place at around 4.45pm on Tuesday at 151 – C Railway crossing in the town when the deceased identified as Rohit Jain of Gandhi Nagar colony made an attempt to cross the railway track by crossing the closed railway gates.



The eye-witnesses on the spot claimed that Rohit did not listen to the warnings and alarm raised by them. They said that a number of persons standing behind the closed gates of the railway crossing even shouted at Rohit raising the alarm of the speeding train reaching near the crossing gates but he could not listen. There are some unconfirmed reports that the deceased was having earphones plugged into his ears following which he could not listen to the horn of speeding train and the warnings being raised by the passers-by.

Lajpat Singh, investigating officer in the case at Mandi Gobindgarh railway station said that the deceased was rushed to the government hospital but was declared brought dead by the doctors. He said, “The dead body of the deceased will be handed over to the family members after the post mortem is conducted. The deceased had not listened to any of the alarm raised by the people standing near the crossing gates. He instead had illegally crossed the railway crossing.”

Notably, the ROB over the ‘151-C Railway crossing’ is need of the hour for residents in the Mandi Gobindgarh town which is also well known as Asia’s biggest iron industrial town. The villagers from more than over 50 villages reach the town to avail better facilities including schooling and hospitalisation by crossing the railway crossing. The villages like Dadheri, Kotla, Lohar Majra, Sanghol, Tarhedi, Nausingh, Jallowal, and some others are badly affected as the Railway crossing gates remain shut for most of the time. The urban colonies including Guru Ki Nagri, Ram Nagar and Surjit Nagar and others in the town are also affected as the civil hospital and schools are situated on the other side of the crossing.


On an average around 200 trains cross over the track here following which the crossing remains closed for most of the time.


The residents claimed that more than five deaths have been reported so far due to the closed railway crossing as residents having no other option used to cross the closed railway crossing gates. In July 2002 a local resident Manpreet Singh of Guru Ki Nagri area in the town had lost his mother Rani Devi, 42, who faced heart attack but could not reach the hospital in time following closed gates of the railway crossing.

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