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WARANGAL: A woman and her eight-year-old son died, while her daughter suffered serious injuries when they were pushed off a running train by a fellow passenger after an argument over seat on Thursday night. D Lakshmi (36), her son Jaswant (8) and daughter Radha (12) were pushed out of Guntur-Secunderabad intercity train near Pembarthi station.
Lakshmi and Jaswant died and Radha was injured seriously. Mediapersons, who were informed of the incident by a passenger in the train, found the bodies of mother and son near the railway track. Radha was seen battling for life in the bushes. She was rushed to MGM hospital in Warangal in 108 ambulance. According to Radha, an unidentified man had an altercation with them over a seat in the train. “He said the seat in which my mother was sitting was his. After we shifted from the seat to another one near the door, the man, continuing to abuse us, pushed us out of the train,” she said.