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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.