Woman dies after falling while changing coaches at Charlapalli railway station

M Venkatesh and his 33-year-old wife Swetha, originally from Dondapudi in Andhra Pradesh’s Anakapalli district, were residing in HMT Township, Lingampalli. The couple has two children. Venkatesh is employed at a private firm, while Swetha was a homemaker who looked after their children.

Hyderabad: In a tragic incident, a woman passenger who tried to get off the train to change coaches and board another coach accidentally slipped and fell in between the moving train and platform and died at the Charlapalli railway station on Sunday.

M Venkatesh and Swetha (33), a couple from Dondapudi in Anakapalli district in Andhra Pradesh, live in HMT Township in Lingampalli. They have two children. While Venkatesh works in a private firm, Swetha was a housewife and takes care of the children.

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As it was summer vacation for the children, Swetha along with the children were going to their native place when the mishap occurred in the morning.

Venkatesh helped his wife and children board the Janmabhoomi Express with his wife and children at Lingampalli railway station on Sunday.

According to the Secunderabad Government Railway Police (GRP), they were supposed to board coach D-8 and mistakenly boarded coach D-3. When the train reached Charlapalli railway station, other passengers came and said that those seats belonged.

“Then she realized that they had boarded a different coach. She abruptly got off the coach with her children and reached D-8. She put her two children inside the coach. Before she could even board the train, the train moved. While trying to quickly board the train, she fell between the train and the platform,” said a GRP official.

Swetha, who was seriously injured in the accident, died on the spot.

The GRP staff shifted the body to the Gandhi Hospital for autopsy. Case is under investigation.