3 Karnataka boys with hearing, speech disabilities run over by train in Tamil Nadu

Two brothers and their friend had come to visit their parents who were working near Chennai as part of Dussehra holidays.

The deceased identified as Suresh (15), and his brother Ravi (12) and Manjunath (11) were residents of Karnataka.

Three boys with hearing and speech impairments were Tuesday run over by a speeding train while they were playing on the railway track in Tamil Nadu’s Chengalpattu district.

According to the police, the deceased identified as Suresh (15), and his brother Ravi (12) and Manjunath (11) were residents of Karnataka and had come to visit their parents who were working in Urapakkam, near Chennai, as part of Dussehra holidays, they said.

“Suresh and Ravi had hearing disabilities while their friend Manjunath is speech-impaired. As soon as their parents had gone to work, the children went out to have breakfast and had headed to a nearby railway track to play. The parents had gone to work on Tuesday,” said an officer.

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As the trio was about to cross, a suburban EMU (Electric Multiple Unit) train heading towards Tambaram from Chengalpattu had run over them around 11.45 am.

The Government Railway Police (GRP) personnel retrieved their bodies from the track and sent them to the Chromepet Government Hospital for post-mortem.

The police have registered a case and handed over the bodies to the parents after the post-mortem.

Local reports claim that the railway stretch between Vandalur and Urapakkam is not guarded by any wall leading to frequent accidents.

Janardhan Koushik

Janardhan Koushik is Deputy Copy Editor of indianexpress.com. He is a New Media journalist with over five years of reporting experience in the industry. He has a keen interest in politics, sports, films, and other civic issues. Janardhan holds a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Communication from SRM Arts and Science College and a PG Diploma in New Media from Asian College of Journalism, one of the top ranked journalism schools in India. He started his career with India Today group as a sub-editor as part of the sports team in 2016. He has also a wide experience as a script-writer having worked for short-films, pilot films as well as a radio jockey cum show producer while contributing for an online Tamil FM. As a multilingual journalist, he actively tracks the latest development in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry utiling his well-established networks to contribute significantly to breaking news stories. He has also worked as a sports analyst for Star Sports. ... Read More

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