12 March 2004	Friday	20 Muharram 1425

GUJRAT, March 11: Announcements made at railway stations are sometimes not just hard to decipher. Passengers at Mandi Bahauddin railway station faced a lot of inconvenience on Wednesday due to wrong announcements about arrival of a Lalamusa-bound train.

Ticket-holders had been told at the information counter that the Lila-Lalamusa train would arrive on Platform No 2 at 3pm. A large number of passengers, including old people and children, were waiting for the train with their luggage when it was announced at around 2:55pm that the train would come to Platform No 1 instead.

Carrying luggage and babies, the passengers hurriedly crossed the railway line, but when almost all of them had reached the other side, it was announced that the train was coming to Platform No 2.

The second announcement created panic among passengers, because by that time they could actually see the train approaching Platform No 2. Only half of them managed to cross the track in time.

Mian Sarwar, a resident of Karimpura, Lalamusa, told this reporter at the Mandi railway station that he was carrying heavy luggage and faced a lot of inconvenience in all this confusion. Some of the passengers demanded a probe into the matter.