THANE: Four youths including two from Kalva and one each from Mumbra and Andheri were knocked down to death by local trains in and around Thane railway
station in four different unrelated railway accidents on Tuesday. The number of deaths in a single day has worried the Central Railway (CR) administration. The CR authorities are thinking of tightening up their efforts to prevent crossing of tracks by commuters.
According to the Government Railway Police (GRP) station, Thane, the first accident took place on the tracks at Retibunder between Mumbra and Kalva stations in the morning when one Suresh Ramesh Gaikwad 29, a resident of the area was crossing the tracks on the slow train corridor. Gaikwad died instantly after being knocked down by a Mumbai CST bound local train that had just crossed the tunnel II at Retibunder.
Within an hour of the first accident the GRP were informed of another death on the tracks near Kalva railway station. The GRP cops informed that Suresh Rajesh Padwalkar, a resident of Shimla Park area in Mumbra had died when he was caught under the wheels of a Thane bound speeding train that had just left Kalva railway station.
Subsequently the GRP cops picked up the dead body of one Sunil Yelode 34, from the tracks with the help of porters a few metres away from the Thane station. Yelode was run over by a Vashi bound train that had left Thane station. The deceased is a resident of Andcheri in Mumbai and was away to palce of work at Vashi when the accident took place.
The fourth accident took place when a youth was crushed to death by a Kalva bound local train just before Kalva railway station. The police have identified the dead body to be that of one Kailash. The full name of the deceased as well as his residential address has not been known. The police believe that the deceased could be a resident of slums lining the tracks at Kalva.
The four deaths within a span of few hours on a single day have worried the local CR administration. The CR authorities had begun the use of Railway Protection Force (RPF) to prevent commuters and pedestrians from crossing the railway tracks. The RPF men had even resorted to the use of Close Circuit TV (CCTV) cameras at the station to trace out the offenders and bring them to book.
The step has been proved ineffective and the CR authorities are pondering on what more steps to take to prevent crossing of railway tracks.
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