Hours after a man ܫallegedly set afire a c🐻o-passenger and injured eight others on board an express train, three persons, including a one-year-old child and a woman, were found dead on the tracks near the Elathur railway station in Kozhikode.
A senior police official from the district told PTI that ♏the bodies of a woman, a child and a man were recovered from the tracks late Sunday night.
The thre𝓰e were missing from the train after the fire incident on Sunday,🔯 he added.
All about the incident
A⛄ccording to police, at around 9.45 pm, when the Alappuzha-Kannur Executive Express train reached the Korapuzha railway bridge after crossing Kozhikode city, an unidentified man poured an inflammable liquid on a co-passenger and set him on a fire resulting in burn injuries to at least eigh♛t persons.
The man escapedﷺ soon after the incident, while the injured were s𓆏hifted to hospitals after passengers pulled the emergency chain.
When the train reached Kannur, a few passengers complained that a woman and a child were m꧂issing after the incident.
"A man, who was injured, kept looking for a woman and a child. We found footwear and a mobile phone♏ of that woman," a passenger told the media at Kannur.
Soon after the news of the missing persons came out, the city police inspected the tracks and found thಞree bodies, including the woman and the child and a mid-aged man.
Polic💎e suspect they fell off the train or attempted to deboard afte✃r seeing the fire.
"The woman and the child who went missing were f🃏ound dead on the tracks. There is one unidentified body of a male. We have found CCTV visuඣals of the suspect. Investigation is on," a senior police official of the district said.
Sources said the woman was the child's aunt.
A total of nine persons haveꦉ been admitted to various hospitals, including the Kozhikode Medical College, for treatment Further details are awaited.
(With PTI Inputs)
