Two youths fall off packed trains, die

Kolkata: Obstruction of train movement in the Sealdah-Bongaon section of Eastern Railway’s Sealdah division for over an hour resulted in the death of two young persons, including a first-year college student, on Monday morning. According to the police and railway officials, the two fell out from an over-crowded local train after the obstruction was lifted.
A few days ago, Eastern Railway announced the cancellation of a few local trains on Tuesday due to non-interlocking work in the Barasat-Hasnabad section. Around 8 am on Monday, a group of commuters squatted on the tracks at Barasat station to protest against this decision. While police succeeded in evicting the squatters, another group began an agitation. When train services resumed, the trains were found to be overcrowded.
Soon after this, Priyanka Sinha - a first-year student of Surendranath College in Sealdah - boarded the rear ladies compartment of a Sealdah-bound local train from Durganagar. Sources said Priyanka managed to hang on somehow. It is not clear whether she was pushed or she lost her grip and fell. Her body was later recovered from the tracks.
“We also found the body of a youth aged about 25 on the tracks. He too may have fallen out of a local train. We can’t be sure which train they fell off from,” said a railway official.