ALLAHABAD: A five-month-old girl died of suffocation after spending over six hours in an overcrowded coach of a educate whilst reeling beneath extreme warmth on the Allahabad Junction, on Friday.
The toddler was once identified Taimurnisha and she was once travelling to Delhi along side her mother Shabana Bano, 3 sisters and cousins for summer time vacations in a sleeper coach of the Bramhputra Mail (14055).
The family had boarded the educate at 2am from Mughal Sarai Junction and the educate was once running overdue through round 10 hours. The educate reached Allahabad Junction at eight:30am, thereby taking over six hours to hide a distance of round 150 kilometre-between Mughal Sarai and Allahabad.
By the time the educate reached Allahabad Junction, Taimurnisha's situation had deteriorated. The family reported the matter to the railway government and she was once rushed to Motilal Nehru Hospital, the place the docs declared her introduced useless.
Talking to TOI from Delhi, Taimurnisha's father Iqbal Shaikh mentioned, "My daughter was fine when the family boarded the train at Mughal Sarai but her condition started deteriorating in the overcrowded coach and we have lost her."
"Had the train been running on time and the railway authorities had somehow controlled the menace of overcrowding in coaches, my daughter would still have been alive," he added. As the docs on the health facility declared the newborn useless, the members of the family returned to Mughal Sarai through taxi.NCR PRO Amit Malviya, mentioned, "The train was not detained at the outer. Some trains were bunched due to a dust storm at night because of which train movement was slow."
The toddler was once identified Taimurnisha and she was once travelling to Delhi along side her mother Shabana Bano, 3 sisters and cousins for summer time vacations in a sleeper coach of the Bramhputra Mail (14055).
The family had boarded the educate at 2am from Mughal Sarai Junction and the educate was once running overdue through round 10 hours. The educate reached Allahabad Junction at eight:30am, thereby taking over six hours to hide a distance of round 150 kilometre-between Mughal Sarai and Allahabad.
By the time the educate reached Allahabad Junction, Taimurnisha's situation had deteriorated. The family reported the matter to the railway government and she was once rushed to Motilal Nehru Hospital, the place the docs declared her introduced useless.
Talking to TOI from Delhi, Taimurnisha's father Iqbal Shaikh mentioned, "My daughter was fine when the family boarded the train at Mughal Sarai but her condition started deteriorating in the overcrowded coach and we have lost her."
"Had the train been running on time and the railway authorities had somehow controlled the menace of overcrowding in coaches, my daughter would still have been alive," he added. As the docs on the health facility declared the newborn useless, the members of the family returned to Mughal Sarai through taxi.NCR PRO Amit Malviya, mentioned, "The train was not detained at the outer. Some trains were bunched due to a dust storm at night because of which train movement was slow."
Journey in humid, overcrowded train claims infant's life
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