In a shocking incident, three persons, including a one year old child and a woman died after a man allegedly set afire a co passenger. Besides three dead, 8 people were injured in an express train traveling from Alappuzha to Kannur.
According to sources, the incident occurred due to an argument between the accused, who is yet to be identified and is currently absconding. A senior police official from the district said the bodies of a woman, a child and a man were recovered from the tracks of Ethur Railway Station. The three were missing from the train after the fire incident, occurred on the 2nd of April.
Getting into details, at around 9:45 P.M., when the Alappuzha-Kannur Executive Express train reached the Korapuzha railway bridge after crossing Kozhikode cit. An unidentified man poured an inflammable liquid on a co passenger and set him on a fire resulting in burn injuries to at least eight persons.
The man escaped soon after the incident, while the injured were shifted to hospitals after passengers pulled the emergency chain. When the train reached Kannur, a few passengers complained that a woman and a child were missing after the incident.
A case has been registered and an investigation is underway.
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