Wearing earphones proves costly for 3 youths as they get run over by train

Walking on the railway tracks with earphones on proved fatal for three persons as they were run over by a speeding train near Nayanagar railway station.

Raja Kumar, Chandrashekhar Kumar and Mohammad Karim were walking along the railway track wearing earphones when they were run over by a train, Hasanpur police station in-charge Rajnish Kumar said.

While two of them died on the spot, another succumbed to his injuries later. Their bodies have been sent for post-mortem, Kumar said.