Four workers mowed down by suburban train going from Tambaram to Chennai Beach

Chennai: Four workers walking on the railway tracks between Nungambakkam and Chetpet were killed after a suburban train going from Tambaram to Chennai Beach hit them on Wednesday afternoon.

According to government Railway Police officials investigating the case said that train number 40082 hit the workers who were walking one behind the other on the railway tracks used by electric trains and the impact was such that while two were thrown off, two landed under the train, at around 3 pm.

“I was informed of the incident at 3.15 PM. One worker who had suffered injuries on the head, chest and leg, was taken to Rajiv Gandhi general hospital where he succumbed to his injuries,” said a railway police official.

The incident happened near the Pachaiyappa’s College Hostel road where the tracks take a curve.

“Since the tracks were in a curve and the train was going at a good speed, it would not have been possible for the loco pilot to apply sudden brakes as it would have led to a derailment. After the men were hit, the train was stopped and the two men were pulled out. One of them died at the hospital,” a GRP official said.

One of the deceased was found to be a 35-year-old man, Prasanta Garada, hailing from Koraput in Odisha. The police are in the process of ascertaining the identities of the remaining three. A day earlier, a toddler was killed and her mother critically injured after falling off a train at Mambalam station.