JAIPUR: Five passengers were killed and one person was injured while jumping off the roof of Kota-Bayana fast Passenger Train at Sawai Madhopur railway station in Rajasthan on Sunday noon. Some of these passengers were hit by an express train coming on a parallel track while others were killed while crossing the tracks.

According to the government railway police (GRP), the passengers were travelling on the top of Kota-Bayana fast passenger due to excessive rush on the eve of Raksha Bandhan.

“After the train reached Sawai Madhopur, some of the passengers jumped off the train. While jumping off it, three of them were hit by an express train running on the parellel track,” said an officer with GRP.

It was panic at the railway station when people saw blood stained bodies as well as the injured.

Few passengers got down from the train on the railway track side instead of the platform side and were run over by the Gandhidham-Howrah Superfast Express which was passing at a high speed from the station, the SHO of GRP Railway station Kishanlal told PTI.

Four of the five deceased were identified as Kamal (19), Nitesh (14), Man Singh and Mukesh (both 35), he said.

(With inputs from PTI)