Mumbai, June 17: A 25-year-old woman and her younger daughter, who was in her arms, died on the tracks near Koparkhairne on Tuesday morning while she was trying to save her elder daughter from going under the wheels of the train that ultimately ran over her.
Government Railway Police officials in Navi Mumbai said the accident occurred around 10.30 am on Tuesday, when Chandradevi Singh and her two daughters aged one and two-and-a-half years were crossing the tracks between Koparkhairne and Turbhe stations on the Harbour Line.
Chandradevi, according to witnesses, ran after her elder daughter, Nanu, trying to drag her away from the way of a Vashi-bound train. However, in the process, she and her younger daughter, who was in her arms, were fatally hit by the train.
Nanu, who was also critically injured, was first taken to Navi Mumbai Municipal Hospital in Vashi and later shifted to Dr D Y Patil Hospital in Nerul with a fracture in the skull and hand. She was shifted to Sion Hospital in the evening for specialist treatment.
“When we examined her, the child was in a state of shock, but stable. Her relatives told us that the victims live at Bonkode village in Koparkhairne,” a medical officer at Dr D Y Patil Hospital said.
–Agencies