In 2023, India recorded 24,678 railway accidents that claimed 21,803 lives, with Maharashtra accounting for the highest share at 5,559 cases, or 22.5% of the total, according to the latest National Crime Records Bureau report.
The sanitation workers who got struck by a train were specifically hired to clean the railway track ahead of the scheduled passage of Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting Ashwini Vaishnaw.
Four sanitary workers, including two women from Tamil Nadu, were killed after being hit by the Thiruvananthapuram-bound Kerala Express near Shoranur Railway Station on Saturday evening.