Three passengers, including a two-year-old boy, were found dead on a railway track and eight others sustained burn injuries after an unidentified person set co-passengers on fire on board an express train bound for Kannur in Kerala late Sunday.
The incident occurred at 9.45 pm inside the Alappuzha-Kannur Executive Express when the train was about to cross the Korapuzha bridge between Kozhikode and Kannur stretch.
The police said they stumbled upon the three bodies early Monday during an inspection on the track near Korapuzha, where the incident happened. Prima facie, the police suspect that the three victims might have jumped out of the train in panic when the fire broke out in the compartment.
