Vellore: Three persons, including an eleven-year-old boy and a woman, were killed when a speeding train hit them as they were trying to cross the railway track at Ambur station near Vellore in the early hours of Sunday, police here said.
They said Sankar, employed in a footwear factory, had taken his sister Bhanumathi and grandson Nitish to Ambur station to catch a train to Chennai. The family tried to cross the first track to reach the second platform where the Chennai train was supposed to halt sometime later.
But all the three were mowed down by a train that came speeding on the first track. Their crushed bodies were spotted on the bloodied track much later by passersby, who alerted the station master.
The body parts of the three had to be scooped up from the track in blankets and taken to the government hospital for post-mortem before being released to the grieving family later in the day. Railway authorities have sought an explanation from station master as to how the family was not stopped from undertaking the dangerous crossing of tracks, that too when a train was scheduled to pass by around that time.
