Thaindian News

New Delhi, March 5 (IANS) A train ran over a young man at the Uttam Nagar West Metro station Saturday morning when he jumped on to the tracks to get to the opposite platform, Delhi Metro said.

The victim was identified as Rahul Thapa, 25.

Thapa jumped on to the track at the elevated station in a dangerous attempt for a short cut to the other platform instead of using escalators, a Metro official said.

He did not notice that a train from Dwarka and bound for Noida was racing to the station.

By the time the train driver saw Thapa and applied the emergency brakes, two coaches had already entered the platform area — and they hit the man.

Frenzied station officials pulled out Thapa from under the train. He was still conscious and, surprisingly, had no visible injury marks.

But when he was rushed to the Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital, doctors there declared him dead.