Man dies as rod pierces his neck after shattering train’s window

THE PASSENGER, HARIKESH KUMAR, WAS TRAVELLING FROM THE ANAND VIHAR TERMINAL IN NEW DELHI TO LUCKNOW

AGRA: In a freak incident, a passenger on board the Delhi-kanpur Neelachal Express died after being hit by an iron rod that flew in through the window and pierced his neck when the train was near Aligarh Junction on Friday morning.

The incident took place around 8.45am when the train was between Somna and Dambar railway stations of the Prayagraj division. “An iron rod lying on the tracks broke through the window of the general coach and struck one of the passengers, identified as Harikesh Kumar Dubey, a resident of Sultanpur,” said chief public relations officer (Cpro)-prayagraj Himanshu Shekhar Upadhyay, in a video statement after the incident.

It wasn’t immediately clear how this happened, although it is likely that the rod was lying on the tracks in such a way that only a small part of it was between them, so that when the train’s wheels pressed it, the longer end was propelled at great force through the window, passed through the side of the neck of the man who was sitting by the window, and passed through the partition. Photographs showed just this.

“The incident is being investigated by Government Railway Police and Railway Protection Force,” Upadhyay added

The passenger was travelling from Anand Vihar terminal in New Delhi to Lucknow.