Man falls on Metro tracks, right foot severed by train

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, February 21

A 57-year-old central government employee today accidentally fell on the tracks of the Metro at Dilshad Garden station and came under an approaching train following which his right foot got severed, a police official said.

The injured, identified as Zachariah Koshy, works with the Ministry of Textiles, and is a resident of Shalimar Garden. He was rushed to a nearby hospital where he is undergoing treatment. Earlier in the day, police had received a call that a man had "jumped before a moving train" at the station, he said.

A Metro official had earlier suspected that it might have been a case of a "suicide bid".

The incident took place around 9.15 am and the train was moving towards Shahdara station. Train services were "briefly affected", he added.