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.
Two people were killed after several coaches of the Howrah-CSMT Express derailed near Chakradharpur in Jharkhand on July 30 morning. The accident took place around 3:45 a.m.
At least two people died after the Chandigarh-Dibrugarh Express derailed and several coaches overturned Thursday afternoon Uttar Pradesh’s Gonda district.
Following the Kanchanjunga Express train accident, Chaitali Majumder, a passenger on the ill-fated train, has alleged that she was made to sign a blank paper by the Government Railway Police (GRP), which was later turned into a formal complaint against the deceased loco pilot and injured co-pilot of the freight train involved in the collision.