Four passengers die inside Kerala Express due to extreme heat

Shahira Naim
Tribune News Service
Lucknow, June 11

Four senior citizens travelling in Kerala Express reportedly died due to the severe heat wave in Uttar Pradesh on Monday evening.

According to railway sources, the four passengers, including a woman, were travelling from Agra Cantonment to Coimbatore inside sleeper coach S8 and S9. 

While three were found dead when the train reached Jhansi around 7 PM, the fourth passenger was rushed to the hospital in a critical condition where he later died.

A group of 65 passengers, who were all senior citizens, were on a “UP darshan”, according to the Jhansi division railway PRO Manoj Singh.

The group had boarded the coaches S8 and S9 of the Kerala Express at Agra Cant at 4 pm.

Singh said that the post mortem report of the deceased passengers was awaited.  

According to co-passengers, the victims had been feeling uneasy due to the extreme heat.

While the temperature in Agra was 46.6 degree Celsius on Sunday, Jhansi had recorded 49.2 degree Celsius temperature.

The victims have been identified as Bundur Palanisame (80), Bal Krishna Ramaswami (67) Dhanlaxmi (74) and Subbaraiyya (87).

This month there have been two similar incidents of deaths inside moving trains due to heat. Two people died in the incidents.

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath expressed grief at the death of the four senior citizens and extended his condolences to the bereaved families.