MP: After son’s suicide on railway tracks, wailing man crushed to death by another train in Hoshangabad

Indore: A pall of gloom descended on a village in Madhya Pradesh’s Hoshangabad district where a 36-year-old man and his 60-year-old father were crushed to death under separate running trains on Thursday midnight.

Double tragedy in MP’s Hoshangabad

According to the police, the deceased were identified as Chhotelal Vishwakarma and his father Mohanlal, both Marupura Sohagpur village residents who worked as carpenters. As per case details, there was a dispute between Vishwakarma and his wife. For the last few months, she had been staying with her parents. On Thursday night, the couple had an argument over the phone, following which Vishwakarma shot off to the railway tracks, situated hardly 100 metres away from his house. At 12:30 am, he jumped before a running train and died, according to a report published by The Times of India.

Vishwakarma’s 60-year-old father, who ran after him, sat down on the railway tracks in a state of deep shock. The sexagenarian held his son’s mutilated remains in his arms and began crying inconsolably. Another advancing train ran over him. Locals dashed him to a hospital, where medics declared him dead.

GRP files case

The Government Railway Police (GRP) at the Pipariya railway station has filed a case in connection with the double tragedy. Police efforts to collect remains of Vishwakarma’s body continued till the wee hours.

This comes months after three alert jawans of the Railway Protection Force (RPF) rescued a man who allegedly tried to kill himself by laying down on the railway tracks at the Virar railway station in Maharashtra’s Mumbai. The CCTV footage showed the man is walking over the railway tracks and later laying down in order to get crushed under an approaching train. An RPF personnel noticed the man and saved his life in the nick of time.