NFR employee crushed to death by train

One person was killed and four others were injured when a speeding passenger train hit them in the outskirts of Guwahati on Tuesday.

The incident took place near Thakurbari in Chandrapur area at around 10-30 in the morning. The deceased and the injured were all employees of the Northeast Frontier Railway. Some trackmen were working on the two railway tracks in the area when two trains passed by simultaneously and the Nagaon-bound Kolongpar Express hit the workers.

The injured people have been rushed to the Railway Hospital in Maligaon and the condition of two of them is stated to be serious.