Chennai: Toddler slips from mother's arms, falls to death on railway track

Chennai: A one-and-a-half-year-old baby girl died after she slipped from her mother’s arms while they were de-boarding a train and fell on the railway tracks, the Government Railway Police (GRP) said.

The toddler slipped through the gap between the platform and the moving train after her mother tripped while getting off at Mambalam railway station, a senior GRP official said.

The woman sustained serious injuries in her legs, he added.

"Lakshmi tripped as the train started moving while she was getting off the Mannai Express from Mannargudi," the official said, adding that the woman has been hospitalised.

The woman, along with her husband and other family members, had returned to the city by Mannai Express after a sojourn at their native place in Thanjavur district.