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Two dead as suburban train hits pedestrians after employee protest halts services

Mumbai, Nov 6 (UNI) Two people were killed and three others seriously injured after being struck by a suburban train near Sandhurst Road railway station in south Mumbai on Thursday evening.
The incident occurred around 7 pm, shortly after local train services on the Central Railway had been disrupted due to an impromptu protest by employee unions.
According to railway officials, the victims — three women and two men — had reportedly alighted from the wrong side of a train and were walking along the tracks when they were hit by an approaching suburban train. The injured were immediately rushed to J J hospital , where 19-year-old Hailey Mohmaya and 45-year-old Suryakant Naik, a resident of Mira Road, were declared dead. Hailey's paternal aunt, Khushbu, sustained fractures to her hand and was shifted to a private hospital.
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