Three killed in separate train mishaps in city

HYDERABAD: A person committed suicide by jumping before a running train, another fell from a running train while an elderly person was knocked to death by a train in three different incidents between Malakpet and Uppuguda railway stations on Thursday.The three accidents are suspected to have taken place between 10 a.m and 12 noon.In the first incident, an auto driver allegedly jumped before a running train after being admonished by his parents for his alcohol addiction.The deceased, S Gopinath was a resident of Saidabad.Kacheguda railway police sub-inspector D Rama Rao said Gopinath jumped before a running train between Malakpet and Dabeerpura stations.“A note with a telephone number (of a family member) was found in his pocket.He also wrote ‘Chinnodu Bhadram’ (take care of my son) in the note,” Rama Rao said.Gopinath was reportedly very fond of his son Vijay Kumar and he asked his parents and wife to take care of him.Gopinath’s parents had rebuked him for being involved in a recent accident in an inebriated condition and were asking him to get rid of his bad habit.In another incident, a mason from Lalitha Bagh in Old City came under the wheels of a passenger train after he accidentally fell while boarding the train at Uppuguda station around 12 noon.M Govind Sagar (45) had come to catch the Kurnool- Secunderabad passenger and he slipped while trying to board the train which had started to move.“He slipped and fell on the tracks and the train ran over him,’’ Rama Rao said.In the third incident, an unidentified person aged between 65-70 years was knocked down by a train between Malakpet and Dabeerpura stations.His body was found lying between the two tracks.The accident might have happened between 10 and 10.30 a.m, police said.