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<\/div>\nThe incident took place around 9.45 pm at Korapuzha railway bridge. (Representational)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Three persons, including a one-year-old child and a woman, were found dead on the tracks near the Elathur railway station here, hours after a man allegedly set afire a co-passenger and injured eight others on board an express train.<\/p>\n
A senior police official from the district told PTI that the bodies of a woman, a child and a man were recovered from the tracks late Sunday night.<\/p>\n
The three were missing from the train after the fire incident on Sunday, he added.<\/p>\n
At around 9.45 pm, when the Alappuzha-Kannur Executive Express train reached the Korapuzha railway bridge here after crossing Kozhikode city, an unidentified man poured an inflammable liquid on a co-passenger and set him on a fire resulting in burn injuries to at least eight persons, police said.<\/p>\n
The man escaped soon after the incident, while the injured were shifted to hospitals after passengers pulled the emergency chain.<\/p>\n
When the train reached Kannur, a few passengers complained that a woman and a child were missing after the incident.<\/p>\n
“A man, who was injured, kept looking for a woman and a child. We found footwear and a mobile phone of that woman,” a passenger told the media at Kannur.<\/p>\n
Soon after the news of the missing persons came out, the city police inspected the tracks and found three bodies, including the woman and the child and a mid-aged man.<\/p>\n
Police suspect they fell off the train or attempted to deboard after seeing the fire.<\/p>\n
“The woman and the child who went missing were found dead on the tracks. There is one unidentified body of a male. We have found CCTV visuals of the suspect. Investigation is on,” a senior police official of the district said.<\/p>\n
Sources said the woman was the child’s aunt.<\/p>\n
A total of nine persons have been admitted to various hospitals, including the Kozhikode Medical College, for treatment Further details are awaited.<\/p>\n
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