Mumbai: A 13-year-old school student was on Tuesday run over by a train here triggering protests from locals, who disrupted suburban and main line services for almost an hour on the Central Railway route.
According to a railway official, the victim, Suraj Vohra, was run over by a train while crossing the tracks under Hancock Bridge between the Sandhurst Road and Byculla stations at around 11 AM. After the mishap, Vohra was rushed to a nearby hospital where doctors pronounced him dead.
The boy was a student of St. Peters High School, Mazgaon, and was identified by the principal. Angry over the incident, local residents came on to the tracks and blocked the movement of suburban as well as long distance trains. They were demanding the presence of senior railway officers on the spot and construction of either Road Over Bridge or Foot Over Bridge.
The century-old, British-era Hancock Bridge (located between Byculla and Sandhurst Road stations), was demolished recently.
