Passengers and bystanders at Tamil Nadu’s Perambur railway station were taken aback when they saw a woman’s body stuck on the front end of Thiruvananthapuram Express train’s locomotive, police said on Friday.
According to the authorities, the train reached Perambur station on Friday morning when the passengers witnessed the horrific scene.
Visuals from the spot showed the woman’s body stuck to the front end of the locomotive with her hair entangled with the grill and her legs dangling on the track.
Upon receiving the information, the Railway Protection Force (RPF) reached the spot, retrieved the body and sent it to the government hospital for autopsy, officials said.
The woman has been identified as 22-year-old Chatherine Sheeba from Ambattur in Tamil Nadu and was studying at a private college at Vepery.
Police have registered a case and have initiated an investigation to find the cause of the woman’s death.
