HYDERABAD, Feb 5: Two daily wagers were electrocuted and a man was run over by a goods train in separate incidents in the city and its surrounding areas on Monday.

Two labourers of a hotel, Ahmed and Sharafat Awan were electrocuted when washing clothes they accidentally touched the pipe of a pumping machine perched on the edge of a watercourse near their hotel in Detha, Tandojam taluka.

In the other accident Mohammad Rafiq was crushed under the wheels of a goods train near Hyderabad railway station when he was trying to cross the track.

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