Mumbai: Three employees of the Western Railways died on the spot after a local train ran over them while they were fixing signalling issues between Vasai Road and Naigaon stations, officials said on Tuesday.
The deceased railway employees have been identified as Vasu Mitra, Chief Signalling Inspector, Somnath Uttam Lambutre, Electrical Signalling Maintainer, and Sachin Wankhade, Helper.
All these staff are from the Signalling Department of the Mumbai division, officials said.
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According to the Western Railways' Chief Public Relations Officer (CPRO), three employees had gone to attend to signalling point issues which had failed on the night of Monday. They were run over by a passing local train between Vasai Road and Naigaon on the UP slow line and died on the spot.
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"Western Railway has ordered an inquiry," CPRO said. (with Agency inputs)
