Two women run over by train at Mandya Station
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Two women run over by train at Mandya Station

January 25, 2023

Deceased failed to take note despite repeated honking by Loco Pilot

Mandya: Two women, who alighted from a train, were run over by another speeding train at Mandya Town Railway Gate this morning. In a tearing hurry to cross the Railway line, the women did not pay attention to the approaching train from Mysuru though the loco pilot was honking continuously.

Unconfirmed reports said that while one woman, who was caught right in the middle of the tracks, was speaking on her mobile phone, the other lady, who was standing next to the tracks, tried to jump off but was caught under the wheels of the train. The incident occurred between 9.30 am and 10 am. Reports said that the women, one aged around 60 and the other around 35, were travelling from Bengaluru to Mandya in the Kacheguda Express.

Many people had alighted the train and these women failed to notice the approaching Malgudi Express that was heading from Mysuru to Bengaluru. The women were run over right in front of other commuters.

Eyewitness Renuka told reporters that it was  business-as-usual where many passengers got down from the Kacheguda Express. “Even I came in that train and was sitting on the platform. I heard loud screams where the Railway parcel movers were seen alerting a young woman who was standing next to the tracks. The parcel movers were asking the young lady to move aside as the Malgudi Express was fast approaching,” she recalled.

“I raised my neck and saw an elderly woman right in the middle of the tracks and she was run over by the train within seconds. The younger woman, who was alerted by the parcel movers, tried to jump off but was eventually caught under the wheels,” she said.

“Unfortunately, the two women did not even hear the loud honking sound of the speeding Malgudi Express and they might have presumed that the shrill horn was that of Kacheguda Express that was getting ready to leave for Mysuru,” Renuka said.

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The identities of the women are yet to be established and local villagers said that the elderly woman is the mother of the younger woman and they hailed from Shivalli village near Mandya. However, the Police and the Railway Protection Force are yet to confirm the identities.

The Police have taken possession of their bags and belongings and have shifted the bodies to Mandya Institute of Medical Sciences (MIMS) mortuary.

38 COMMENTS ON THIS POST To “Two women run over by train at Mandya Station”

  1. Very sad indeed. Hope that as Railways keep replacing the old trains with modern ones with automatic doors controlled by the driver/guard, the occurrence of these tragic incidents will be eliminated. Automatic doors will open only when the train is fully stopped on a platform, that too only on the platform side when operated by the Driver/Guard. So many gory accidents have occurred due to people trying to board running trains, alighting on the wrong side, travelling on the footboard, hanging near the open door of a fast running train … Elimination of level crossings is another critical measure that Railways have to implement which is a major challenge. Unfortunate that our people are not ‘Safety Conscious’ and take everything for granted. A huge revolution to change the mindset is required to inculcate SAFETY in everything we do.

  2. Manjunath says:

    Can’t understand your logic. The approaching train driver continuously honked the whistle and the 2vwomen were completely engrossed in talking to a phone. Even other passengers alerted them.

  3. Ajjampur Vijayakumar says:

    Hey @Prasad
    You talk about safety in India! That makes me laugh, as food is not safe to eat as its ingredients like cooking oil is adulterated. There are no footpaths in Mysore, as the corrupt MCC officials have let vendors to occupy them, making pedestrians use the and get killed by car drivers who are reckless with cars which do not have licence, roads have full of pot holes, and your wonderful 10-lanes Mysore-Bangalore Highway which is seeing accidents already will kill more people.
    You are a third world country, a dump, not the tech supremo as your demented PM Modi make the world to believe
    Just look at how your pharmaceutical company has killed children. Read:https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/24/who-urges-action-after-cough-syrups-linked-to-more-than-300-child-deaths
    there this sentence:”, for cough syrups made by India’s Maiden Pharmaceuticals and Marion Biotech, which are linked with deaths in the Gambia and Uzbekistan respectively”
    Indians are busy lining their pockets with cash, through corruption and Safety? Not in India or in its services or productts.
    Jai Hind!!

  4. Prasanna says:

    Fault of the two women don’t blame the railways

  5. Prahlad says:

    Keep talking and walk on the tracks go and get killed, please don’t blame on the railways coz of your foolishness.

  6. Purushotham says:

    Better to build 7-8 ft barricades or steel mesh compound between two tracks in all the stations
    So that people don’t cross the tracks & get killed

  7. Ravi Shankar says:

    The costs will be enormous, tax payers money should not be spent because some people are reckless and have no common sense.

  8. Priya says:

    What is the urgency to stand on the track and talk on mobile? Can’t the call wait for a few minutes, for how long does it take to get on to a platform n finish the call? Railways are no way responsible for the such foolish acts of passengers. Most important, alighting on railway track itself shows how reckless the person is!

  9. Ibrahim says:

    Mr Vijaykumar
    There is a proverb in kannada ! ತೋಳ ಹಳ್ಳಕ್ಕೆ ಬಿದ್ದರೆ ಆಳ್ಗೊಂಡು ಕಲ್ಲು. This company has supplied cough syrups and medicines for 2 decades , millions of doses . I am not denying that or saying they shouldn’t be held accountable . Their export license was canceled as soon government found that the children died. But what I would like to point out that the same WHO which was on overdrive to jump at india’s neck for a few death vlaoms didn’t even care about China supplying wuhan virus to all over the world and their ineffective vaacine made the situation worse. WHO was acting lije the defenders of China. Pfizer was very unhappy with India for their efforts to supply vaccine to other nations because of their lost opportunities. Once somebody accuses India it becomes a competitive sport. BBC, NY times Washington post. CNN, Ndtv, ToI everybody wants to glorify the numbers by making up their own versions of eyewitness incidents. We think they own the truth.
    Here is how India helped the world, not from a biased news paper article. This is what Modi was boasting about. Doesn’t matter who agrees with or not https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine_Maitri
    Please don’t jump to conclusions that I am a moron with few brain cells or bhakh. I am just presenting the facts and double standards that we can see even by an ordinary person like me.
    Yes, we are a third world nation. Not just now but even for a century. And Indian roads, transportation and even daily life is laced with risks. We can’t compare us with US or China or Europe. But just because we are a third world country we can’t take an exit from this world. We have to deal with what we have. If blaming somebody can elevate our mood, we can do it. But that doesn’t change the facts. It looks like too any people don’t want to flush their toilet but want to blame Modi for their dirty toilets. There must be something called social responsibility which is lacking.

  10. Joseph says:

    Cellphones have become a major contributing factor in all accidents. On the road many people drive while talking or texting. India had more phones compared to many other countries. The other problem is when an accident is about to happen more people want to take a picture or video rather than trying to save or alert othets

  11. P S Rathore says:

    Mr Ibrahim very well said, I really appreciate your thoughts and also because you are aware about social responsibilities and very disappointed by the people who are linking to Govt. what can govt do in this? Even I do feel sorry for those women may god give strength to their families but those women should have checked for clearance then should have taken the step. Also sorry for people like Lakshman Prasad ji and Ajjampur Vijaya Kumar ji who might have left their brains in some sorrow memories so they’re linking this to govt. but I do agree with what he said Mysore’s Footpaths should be cleared, why should they be allowed to do business? Are they maintaining the sales and purchase or are they paying IT? But they’re doing business without paying to nation what kind of they are? Even they should have some Social Responsibilities.

  12. Ajjampur Vijayakumar says:

    Hey @Ibrahim
    Are you sure you support India? Are you sure, your Fellow Muslims feel the same way?
    Your lengthy rant does not wash, when the company supplies cough syrup which kills, because the ingredients were not the right qualityh and contaminated.
    Indians that bmeans companies and organisations in India are reckless, quality comes the last and human lives do not matter.
    Hey@Ibrahim, look at the simple product blike milk, where in Western countries, it can be drunk without worrying about its adulteration. A few backs back the SOM produced a news about a strip which detects a dozen contaminants added to milk. Just read it,.
    It is utterly shameful that India being a huge dishonest country, blaming every other news media in the West and Western companies for the deliberate misdeeds Indians-Indian companies and organisations perpetrate.
    As for Narendra Modi, just watch the BBC Panorama programme of how Modi kept quiet when Muslims were ethnically cleansed in Gujarat when he was the CM. Oh, Modi has banned this! Because, the truth cannot be told.

  13. Ajjampur Vijayakumar says:

    Hey @Ibrahim
    Are you sure you support India? Are you sure, your Fellow Muslims feel the same way?
    Your lengthy rant does not wash, when the company supplies cough syrup which kills, because the ingredients were not the right qualityh and contaminated.
    Indians that bmeans companies and organisations in India are reckless, quality comes the last and human lives do not matter.
    Hey@Ibrahim, look at the simple product blike milk, where in Western countries, it can be drunk without worrying about its adulteration. A few backs back the SOM produced a news about a strip which detects a dozen contaminants added to milk. Just read it,.
    It is utterly shameful that India being a huge dishonest country, blaming every other news media in the West and Western companies for the deliberate misdeeds Indians-Indian companies and organisations perpetrate.
    As for Narendra Modi, just watch the BBC Panorama programme of how Modi kept quiet when Muslims were ethnically cleansed in Gujarat when he was the CM. Oh, Modi has banned this! Because, the truth cannot be told.

  14. Howdy, Modi! says:

    Hey Posters
    Your PM Narendra Modi boasts about Tech India and prattles about how India is capable of sending a robot to the Moon-the Chandrayan.
    Then how come the two tracks are so close and enables the passengers to get off the train and be able to cross the track next ton it?
    Yes, it is Modi’s Tech India, as one of the women was speaking on mobile tele phone standing in the middle of the track where there was an approach train on that track! Tech India, Modi says; is a country where technology is a way of life!
    If the women are ignorant and reckless, so are ,most of the Indians I meet.
    Interesting it was RK Narayan’s Malgudi has done this. The time it is express train not the man eater of Malgudi-the tiger.

    • Sunny says:

      What, really ,are you serious of talking all this..Are you even making sense..lol ..Did the PM ask to use technology railway tracks . 😂 Think and talk stop blaming and if all start being responsible then it’s better than blame. Start being good as you getting good.

  15. subbarayan says:

    Why comment on Module on this ghastly accident? Our Muslims jump the fence and comment on Modiji where he is not in the picture. If someone pees in his pants Modiji is responsible. If Muslims are not happy in Bharath they have enough Muslim countries to go. Let them

  16. Avukader Kutty Naha says:

    Hey @subbarayan
    What are you blabbering about Module? What is it, you fool?
    Yourt wonderful Modiji, who abandoned his wife, is really in the picture, as he boasts about how India has progressed, how it is sending satellites up and how it will be attempting Chandrayan, when his railways cannot fix this silly position of open train track running next to a train without a fence in between, at least to the length which would have prevented this accident.
    Just to remind your small brain that the woman who stood on the track was talking to a mobile phone,again your Modiji saying how wonderful people are using technologies in India and boasted about it.
    As for the Muslims, they are citizens of India, just you idiot. Your Modiji, the villain looked on while they were massacred in Gujarat, which hewants to hide, by banning the BBC Panorama Programme. People in your country have watched it anyway.
    Go and worship your Modiji dimwit.

  17. KP VIDYASHANKAR says:

    Mr Vijaykumar should leave for foreign pastures immdtly. He can enjoy getting gunned down in USA, get attacked in Leicester or Birmingham, or settle down in wuhan virus ridden China. The raw materials for the cough syrup is from China. Any as a big idiot he would not know the dosages for children below a certain age for any medicine is zilch. Walking on a rail track and getting hit is as stupid as getting hit on Mysore roads. Being a AH, he cannot even stop the winch rope planned for destroying Chamundi hills.

  18. KP VIDYASHANKAR says:

    Mr Vijaykumar should leave for foreign pastures immdtly. He can enjoy getting gunned down in USA, get attacked in Leicester or Birmingham, or settle down in wuhan virus ridden China. The raw materials for the cough syrup is from China. Anywsy as a big idiot he would not know the dosages for children below a certain age for any medicine is zilch. Walking on a rail track and getting hit is as stupid as getting hit on Mysore roads. Being a AH, he cannot even stop the winch rope planned for destroying Chamundi hills. SOM paper tigers

  19. Sam says:

    Hey VIDYASHANKAR
    Careful while you fry samosas in the cooking boil, as that oil may be adulterated an d hence kill you. Your milk adulterated may end your life. no need for guns for you. Careful too, when you go for testing in a hospital in Mysore. Your doctor may give you an injection which because of his ignorance-he became a doctor by paying lakhs to enter a medical college!
    Did you get oxygen in 2021 Covid pandemic where hundreds of thousands of patients perished for lack of oxygen , where was oxygen was available for VIP patients. In the US/Uk you mention police are not corrupt like your police and they take swift action. Wait until you are mauled by an accident if you drive on your wonderful; Mysore-Bangalore highway. You are not Modi’s brother to get priority treatment in the JSS hospital visited by the Suttur Seer!
    Why do you think masses of educated Indians are knocking at the doors of Western countries pleading for work visas? Why do you think that Indian students despite 1000 Indian universities are increasingly going to Western countries to study?
    @Vjayakumar lives and works in a Western country, and he is safer there than in Mysore, where his wife’s gold chain would have been snatched away, or there are greater chances of Leopards visiting his home or his home being burgled!!
    I guess, you will mostly likely be killed by adulterated ghee/milk. Who needs guns in India?

  20. ssssssssssssss says:

    ಆ ಹುಚ್ಚು ಮುಂಡೇದಕ್ಕೆ ಯಾರೂ ರೆಸ್ಪಾನ್ಸ್ ಕೊಡಬೇಡಿ. ಅವನು ಬೇರೆ ಬೇರೆ ಹೆಸರಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಬರೆಯುತ್ತಾನೆ.

  21. Mann Ki Baat! says:

    I think @Vidyashankr, more like to an embodiment of dur vidya, is sure to catch the next round of Covid-19 infection and gasping for oxygen need when it is more likely made available for a more valuable human being than him! Lives in India are very cheap.
    He will surely love to have USDs/GBPs/Euros, than the worthless waste paper called INRs!

  22. Mann Ki Baat! says:

    @ssssssssssssss
    You cannot even write properly in Kannada one cell brain Gowda!

  23. Doctor says:

    No Amount of Precautions is needed for Human Survival,Charles Darwanian Theory of Survival of the fittest is at work all the time,Looks like poor daily wage workers talking on Phone 📱,only they will know the pain they underwent others central nervous system will not know the pain my Father used to say that one of my relatives died in Hubli Train accident long time back and it was very gory sight what a tragedy great loss to Karnataka State India and the World 🌍

  24. Venkatesh Balasubramaniam says:

    They probably should just fine people who are found crossing the tracks this way. People respond to incentives and punishments.

  25. SD says:

    Exactly,why do we blame govt and others for everything.What is the necessity to talk on track ,or while riding creating problems for all. We are also responsible for our safety and country. It’s 2 way and cannot always blame. Till date people walk using the right hand side on Road,Why ,do we not know that we should be in the Left. But if told shouting, fighting,making other vehicles the culprit , very good. Basic not followed but i am correct kind attitude.Stop blaming govt and others for our mistakes.

  26. Ravi says:

    Railway department was built the flyover to crossing one platform to another, why the people crossing by tracks, it’s not only in mandya , it’s happening somany stations in our country

  27. K says:

    Looks like Mandya station has no platforms to get down on from a train and only a railway crossing where people get off the train to get into a roadside bus. How pathetic!

  28. Krishna says:

    2woman fault. @vijay why you blame central govt. I believe you are hindu. Because of you guys hindus cannot stand together
    One if the biggest problem in hindu. Look other religions. They are taking advantage of us.. very sad. Your parents really hate if you are like this… One day you come to know ..
    Since gandhi govt nothing has been done
    Atleast something is happening now.. common change your mind

  29. Samuel says:

    Myself once saw 3 women walking on tracks there was a train waiting for signal in the opposite track. Me and my uncle were on bike riding on the bridge I saw a train approaching in the track where these three women were walking we stopped and stood on the bridge and told these 3 women to move out from the track within a minute the train passed. What these women thought is the honking sound was that of the train waiting for signal this was near hmt watch factory jalahalli.

  30. Kiran says:

    AJJAMPUR v
    Are u a resident outside India or a Comgress Agent.

    Your words are as same as the congress speaks.

    Don’t blame PM for all. If you have jot voted means don’t think people who have voted him are foolish.

    Either u r Indira gandhi generation or blindfolded.

    There are many inputs on all questions s u hv asked internet.. Pl do research properly

  31. ಚಂದ್ರಶೇಖರ ಪಿ ಎಸ್ says:

    ಇಷ್ಟೆಲ್ಲಾ ಕಾಮೆಂಟ್ಸ್ ಬೇಕಾ?.
    ನಾವು ನಂಬಿರುವ ಆಚರಿಸುತ್ತಿರುವ ಎಲ್ಲವೂ ಹಣೆ ಬರಹ ದ ತತ್ವಕ್ಕೆ ಅನುಗುಣವಾಗಿ.
    ನಿಯಮಗಳನ್ನು ಮಾಡಿರುವುದು ಪ್ರಜೆಗಳ ಅನುಕೂಲ ಮತ್ತು ಸುರಕ್ಷೆ ಗಾಗಿಯೇ
    ಶೇ 90 ಜನ ನಿಯಮ ಪಾಲಿಸಿದರೆ ಶೇ 10 ಪಾಲಿಸದವರೂ ಧಿಕ್ಕರಿಸುವವರೂ ಇದ್ದಾರೆ.
    ಅವರ ಹಣೆ ಬರಹ ಹಾಗಿತ್ತು ಅದರಂತೆ ಆಗಿದೆ ಅಂದುಕೊಳ್ಳುವುದು ಸರಿ ಏನೋ ಅಂತ ಅನ್ನಿಸುತ್ತದೆ.
    ದಶ ಪಥ ರಸ್ತೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಗರಿಷ್ಟ 100 ಕಿ ಮೀ ವೇಗ ಸುರಕ್ಷಿತ ಸವಾರಿ ಗಾಗಿ ಎಂದು ನಿರ್ಧರಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ
    ಅದನ್ನೂ ಮೀರಿ ಹೋಗುವವರು ಇದ್ದಾರೆ ಮತ್ತು ಅಪಘಾತ ಮಾಡಿದವರೂ, ಮಾಡಿಕೊಂಡವರೂ ಇದ್ದಾರೆ ಅದು ಅವರ ಹಣೆಬರಹ ಹೌದೋ ಅಲ್ಲವೋ?

    ಒಂದುವೇಳೆ ಅವರಿಗೆ ತಿಳಿಹೇಳಿದರೂ ನಮ್ಮನ್ನೇ ತೆಗಳಿ ಹೀನಾಯವಾಗಿ ಬೈದು ತಮ್ಮನ್ನು ಸಮರ್ಥಿಸಿ ಕೊಳ್ಳುತ್ತಾರೆ.

    ಇದು ವಿಧಿ ಸಂಕಲ್ಪ ಅಥವಾ ಹಣೆಬರಹ.

  32. Questo says:

    HEY khan
    NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS WHERE SOME ONE LIVES. THIS IS SOM WHERE READERS CAN POST THEIR VIEWS.
    HENCE, BEST TO SHUT UP.

  33. Mann Ki Baat! says:

    Hello @Khan
    What if Ajjampur lives in Pakistan, your Muslim county, which you love so much?
    What have you posted?
    It sounds like Urdu! Write in proper English.
    Do not think 72 virgins are waiting for you. Your Prophet does not want you.

  34. Mann Ki Baat! says:

    Hello @Khan
    What if Ajjampur lives in Pakistan, your Muslim county, which you love so much?
    What have you posted?
    It sounds like Urdu! Write in proper English.
    Do not think 72 virgins are waiting for you. Your Prophet does not want you.

  35. Rao Bhamidimarri says:

    Hey idiots
    India is a third world dump. The ways you accept an open live rail track next to a train, from which passengers could be alighted , it is the responsibility of the Railways to ensure that this does not happen, considering you are not a developed country where act and behave responsibly. Look at how foods are adulterated, look at how people urinate and defecate vin the street. Even the so called educated Indians act in way which is reckless-example of reckless car driving in highways.

  36. M. Mohammed says:

    Hey Khan
    This is Mohammed from Mecca! Your Prophet.
    I warn you to behave. What you have posted is NOT Islam.
    Your Imam should do his job and make sure you behave.

  37. RAMESH says:

    Very unfortunate that mother and daughter got killed. Yes, they were negligent? Or just a human tendency? Government has a social responsibility. Government should at the earliest create tall barricades between tracks so that no one is tempted to cross. Also safe overhead footpaths to help people cross over to the other side.

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