Wipro employee dies while trying to alight from moving train

Team Udayavani, Jan 5, 2019, 10:08 AM IST

Bengaluru: In a tragic incident, a 38-year-old techie died after he came under a moving train while trying to get down at KR Puram Railway Station in the city. 

The deceased identified as Kiran Kumar, a native of Andhra was employed as a software engineer at Wipro. 

The incident took place on Thursday when Kiran was returning to Bengaluru from Chennai, in the Chennai Mail after paying a visit to his hometown to see his three-month-old baby.

At around 4.30 pm when the train was passing through the KR Puram Railway Station, which is not a scheduled stop, Kiran is said to have jumped out of the train but fell into the gap between the platform and track.  His leg was bleeding profusely and he died shortly after.

In a similar incident, Vikram Vijayan, a 28-year-old Bengaluru-based engineer working with Wipro, died after he came under a moving train at Carmelaram Railway Station some three weeks ago.