Tami Nadu: A train ran over through four engineering students sitting on tracks

Four

engineering students sitting on the tracks were run over by a train in Tamil

Nadu’s Coimbatore on Wednesday late night, police said.

The police

suspect that the students might have come to the tracks for consuming liquor.

“As alcohol bottles and plastic cups were found near the track, we suspect that

students might have come here for having liquor,” the inquiry officer said on

condition of anonymity.

The incident

happened on the Rowthar Palam rail over-bridge near Sulur in Coimbatore when

the Chennai–Alappuzha express was passing by. Local residents informed the

police.

“Bothanur

Railway Police reached the spot and recovered four bodies and one student who

sustained injuries,” said railway police.

The deceased

were identified as D Siddique Raja (22), Rajasekar (20), M Gowtham(23), and

Karuppasamy(24) – all students of a private engineering college in Coimbatore.

They belong to Kodaikanal, Theni, and Viruthunagar districts.

M

Vignesh(22), a final year engineering student was rescued with serious injuries

and is undergoing treatment in a private hospital here.

“Gowtham and

Karuppasamy were the 2018 batch pass outs of the college and had come for an

exam.

Rajasekar

was studying in the third year and two others are in their final year of

engineering course. After the exam, they had gone to Rowthar Palam and were hit

by the Chennai- Alappuzha express train,” said an inquiry police officer.

The bodies

have been sent Coimbatore Government Medical College Hospital and an FIR has

been filed.