Two killed by speeding train in Assam

Two persons were run over and killed by trains in lower Assam's Kokrajhar and Bongaigaon districts.

Two persons were run over and killed by trains in lower Assam's Kokrajhar and Bongaigaon districts respectively in the last three days, official sources said on Thursday.

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A village defence party (VDP) volunteer, Sikander Ali Sheikh (45), was run over by the Guwahati-Delhi NE Express last afternoon, when he was keeping vigil on railway tracks on a bridge over river Sankosh in Kokrajhar district, the sources said.

The day before another person, Biren Roy (35), was also knocked down and killed on the spot by a Bongaigaon-Guwahati passenger train when he was trying to cross the rail tracks at Singuri in neighbouring Bongaigaon district on Wednesday.