Delhi: A 58-year-old, partially visually-impaired man fell on the tracks and got crushed by a metro at the Mandi House metro station on Friday evening. The incident took place during the peak hours in the evening, said the DMRC officials.
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Delhi police officials said that the man, identified as Vinod Kumar Pathak, fell on the tracks around 7:35 PM and got crushed by a train coming from Yamuna Bank metro station and going towards Dwarka sector-21 metro station.
The CCTV footage recovered shows that the man is walking on the tracks with no sense of his surroundings. “Initially it seemed like a suicide attempt, but the man seems to have slipped from the platform and fallen. Initial findings seem to show that he had some partial visual impairment. The CCTV footage has also corroborated that,” said a senior police official privy to the investigation.
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The officials said the man was rushed to Ram Manohar Lohia hospital and was declared dead on arrival. “We are not striking down any possibilities as yet. These are just the initial findings,” the official said. “His body was fished out of the second passenger car near the fourth door. The train had run over his body,” the official added.