Mumbai MBBS student jumps off train, dies in hospital

Mumbai city news: Sneha Khandgale was a fourth-year MBBS student who was interning with a private hospital at Kharghar

A 23-year-old medical student from Vashi died after jumping off a train soon after it took off from Kharghar station on Wednesday. She suffered severe injuries to her head and died in a hospital.

According to the railway police, Sneha Khandgale was a fourth-year MBBS student who was interning with a private hospital at Kharghar.

“On Wednesday morning she and a few of her friends boarded a Panvel-bound train to go to the hospital from Vashi. Around 9 am the train halted at Kharghar station but she took some time to reach the door from her seat,” said Rajesh Babshetty, senior police inspector of Panvel government reserve police.

“By the time Sneha reached the door, the train had started but she still jumped off it, fell on the platform and hurt her head badly,” he added.

Her friends rushed her to MGM Hospital in Kamothe. “Her condition started deteriorating and she was shifted to another private hospital in Vashi. But she died there at night,” Babshetty said.

Her body was sent to Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation Hospital in Vashi for a postmortem and then handed over to her family. The postmortem report is yet to be released.

In a similar incident, a 55-year-old man died after he jumped off a moving train at Panvel station. Nandakishore Verma, 50, had reached the station to board a train to Delhi on Wednesday. However, he mistakenly boarded a southbound train.

“He realised his mistake only after the train started moving. He jumped off the train, fell on the platform and suffered severe head injuries,” a railway official said. His body was sent to Panvel Rural Hospital for a postmortem before it was handed over to his family. The railway police registered accidental death cases for both incidents.