3 Students Fall To Death From Chennai Local Train

23 Feb, 2017 12:57 IST|Sakshi
Few students were standing on the footboard of a train

Chennai: Three students died and four others suffered serious injuries after falling off a suburban train in Chennai on Thursday morning.

The students were standing on the footboard of a Tirumalpur-Chennai Beach suburban train when the bag of one of the victims got stuck in a signal post between Palavanthangal and St Thomas Mount railway stations, dragging him down, according to a Railway Protection Force officer.

Six others who stood near him lost balance and fell down. Two of them died on the spot, and another died while being taken to Government Hospital at Chromepet. The accident took place at around 9.15am. The deceased and the injured were students and they were yet to be identified.

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