Palghar, March 14 Three men were killed after a goods train ran over them while they were walking on the tracks near the Palghar railway station in Maharashtra, the Government Railway Police (GRP) said on Saturday.
Their grieving families have, however, claimed that the trio was on the tracks, as the police were chasing them at the time of the accident on Friday night.
Swapnil Shailesh Palande (23), Kunal Kumar Dubla (23), and Afroz Khalil Sheikh (28), all residents of the Virendra Nagar area in Palghar East, were struck by a goods train between 8:30 pm and 9 pm, an official said.
"The three men were walking on the tracks when they were fatally struck by the goods train. We have no information that they were being chased by the police or that they committed suicide," Senior Inspector Sachin Ingavale of the Palghar GRP told