MIRPURKHAS: A woman was killed after falling off the footboard of a moving train while trying to board it at the city’s railway station on Monday.
People present at the platform No.4 rushed to her rescue along with railway police, officials and other employees. They said that the woman, later identified as Sherbano Soomro,wife of Anwar Soomro, fell on the tracks in her attempt to board a bogie of the moving train, Shah Abdul Latif Express.
They said she was alive but critically injured when they transported her to the Mirpurkhas Civil Hospital.
Doctors at the hospital said that she had lost both her legs and that excessive bleeding caused her death.
The body was handed over to the heirs after legal formalities.
Published in Dawn, November 10th, 2026
