Train Track Deaths In Mumbai
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Thousands Stranded As Mumbai Battles "Typhoon-Like Conditions": 10 Points
Thousands were stranded at railway stations across Mumbai after incessant rains flooded railway tracks in the city and its surrounding areas on Saturday, amid predictions by the India Meteorological Department that the weather situation will only get worse in the next 24 to 36 hours. Two deaths were reported during the day, and three people are sti...
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Top CA's Daughter Filmed Boarding Mumbai Local. Then Body Found On Tracks
A young woman in Mumbai, Pallavi Vikamsey, was found dead last evening on train tracks in central Mumbai in between Parel and Currey Road stations on the Central Railway network. The police says it was an accidental death and suspects that she fell off a train, though sources say text messages sent by her allegedly told her family "no one is respon...
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Bombay High Court Asks Railways To Reduce Overcrowding
With nearly 10 people dying on the railway tracks in Mumbai every day and many among them falling off overcrowded local trains, the Bombay High Court on Wednesday came down heavily on the Railways.
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Mumbai Local Train Crash: Motorman Says he Stared Death in the Face
"Meri aankhon ke saamne maut dekha," a shaken L Tiwari told Western Railway officials yesterday, describing the moments when he realised that the train he was piloting was running out of track, hurtling, at high speed, towards platform no 3 of Churchgate station.
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Over 2,000 Deaths on Train Tracks in Mumbai in Less Than 8 Months
While the year is far from over, the Mumbai railway division has already clocked 2,143 deaths and 1,938 injuries on its train tracks between January and mid-August, casting a shadow on all of the government Railway Police's (GRP) efforts to curb such accidents.
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High-five stunt on train track kills passenger
Mindless stunts pulled between three passengers travelling on two parallel local trains cost an innocent co-passenger his life on Wednesday afternoon. The Borivli Government Railway Police (GRP) officers arrested two men last evening for allegedly causing the death of 26-year-old Maqbool Ansari on a Borivli bound local, while they engaged in frivol...
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Mumbai: Three die after falling off overcrowded trains on Central Railway line
Mumbai's two-day-old local train crisis on the arterial Central line has claimed two lives. Hanging on precariously to an over-crowded train, two men hit a signal pole on the side of the tracks, fell off the train and died in suburban Mulund.
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Mumbai accounts for 40% of train track deaths in India
Blame convention or compulsion, Mumbai train commuters breach rules every day -- boarding or alighting from running trains, trespassing, leaning, pulling stunts -- and many pay for it with their lives.
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Thousands Stranded As Mumbai Battles "Typhoon-Like Conditions": 10 Points
Thousands were stranded at railway stations across Mumbai after incessant rains flooded railway tracks in the city and its surrounding areas on Saturday, amid predictions by the India Meteorological Department that the weather situation will only get worse in the next 24 to 36 hours. Two deaths were reported during the day, and three people are sti...
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Top CA's Daughter Filmed Boarding Mumbai Local. Then Body Found On Tracks
A young woman in Mumbai, Pallavi Vikamsey, was found dead last evening on train tracks in central Mumbai in between Parel and Currey Road stations on the Central Railway network. The police says it was an accidental death and suspects that she fell off a train, though sources say text messages sent by her allegedly told her family "no one is respon...
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Bombay High Court Asks Railways To Reduce Overcrowding
With nearly 10 people dying on the railway tracks in Mumbai every day and many among them falling off overcrowded local trains, the Bombay High Court on Wednesday came down heavily on the Railways.
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Mumbai Local Train Crash: Motorman Says he Stared Death in the Face
"Meri aankhon ke saamne maut dekha," a shaken L Tiwari told Western Railway officials yesterday, describing the moments when he realised that the train he was piloting was running out of track, hurtling, at high speed, towards platform no 3 of Churchgate station.
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Over 2,000 Deaths on Train Tracks in Mumbai in Less Than 8 Months
While the year is far from over, the Mumbai railway division has already clocked 2,143 deaths and 1,938 injuries on its train tracks between January and mid-August, casting a shadow on all of the government Railway Police's (GRP) efforts to curb such accidents.
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High-five stunt on train track kills passenger
Mindless stunts pulled between three passengers travelling on two parallel local trains cost an innocent co-passenger his life on Wednesday afternoon. The Borivli Government Railway Police (GRP) officers arrested two men last evening for allegedly causing the death of 26-year-old Maqbool Ansari on a Borivli bound local, while they engaged in frivol...
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Mumbai: Three die after falling off overcrowded trains on Central Railway line
Mumbai's two-day-old local train crisis on the arterial Central line has claimed two lives. Hanging on precariously to an over-crowded train, two men hit a signal pole on the side of the tracks, fell off the train and died in suburban Mulund.
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Mumbai accounts for 40% of train track deaths in India
Blame convention or compulsion, Mumbai train commuters breach rules every day -- boarding or alighting from running trains, trespassing, leaning, pulling stunts -- and many pay for it with their lives.
