'Driver saw them sitting on tracks': Maharashtra teens run over by train; were wearing headphones

NASHIK: Two teens sitting on railway tracks with their headphones on were mowed down by the Ahmedabad-Howrah Express train near Paldhi village in Maharashtra's Jalgaon district on Sunday.

The deceased - Prashant Khairnar and Harshavardhan Nannavare - were aged between 16 and 17 and lived in Mahatma Phule Nagar, police said. The accident occurred around 11am.

"The two boys were spotted sitting on the tracks near Chandsar railway gate by the loco pilot of the train, which was heading to Jalgaon from Dharangaon," an officer with Paldhi outpost of Dharangaon PS said.

According to the loco pilot's report to the station master of Paldhi railway station, the teens were wearing headphones and apparently could not hear the constant whistles of the approaching train.

Police said the accidental death will be investigated. Both teens belonged to lower-middle-class families. Their houses were situated in a colony, barely 300m from the railway tracks, cops said.


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