Kerala: Three dead, eight injured as man sets co-passenger on fire in train
KOZHIKODE,APR 3: Four hours after the shocking incident of a man allegedly setting afire a co-passenger and injuring eight others in an express train, three dead bodies, including a woman and a one-year-old child, were spotted between Elathur railway station and Korapuzhya Bridge, here at 1 am on Monday.
According to the Elathur police, after the train reached Kannur some passengers complained about the missing of a woman and a child. Later, their bodies were found on the tracks. The bodies are likely to be that of those who jumped out of the train when they heard that a fire had broken out.
The deceased has been identified as a woman hailing from Kannur and her nephew. The body of the man has not been identified yet.
Rasikh, a resident of Mattannur, who reached the Koyilandy taluk hospital with injuries, had given information that two people with him were missing.
At around 9.07 pm on Sunday, when the Alappuzha-Kannur Executive Express train reached the Korapuzha railway bridge here after crossing Kozhikode city, an unidentified man wearing a red shirt and a cap poured an inflammable liquid on a co-passenger and set him on a fire.
Both the accused and the victim escaped from the scene leaving at least 8 persons injured. Among the injured, one person was admitted to a private hospital with serious injuries and some were shifted to
Kozhikode Government Medical College Hospital and a few others at Koyilandy Taluk Hospital.
-The New Indan Express
