KARACHI, Aug 11: Three middle-aged women were crushed to death by a train near Drigh Road Railway Station on Monday evening.

A railway police official said that the accident occurred on the unfenced railway lines which were crossed by a significant number of pedestrians to reach Shah Faisal Colony.

“It seems that one of the three women got the foot stuck in the tracks ahead of the speeding Lahore-bound ‘Tezgam’ and in an effort to set her free all of them were crushed by the locomotive,” he said.

However, some witnesses say that the three women were struggling to set free a young girl, whose foot got stuck in the tracks. Their effort succeeded but they lost their life, area people observe.

A large number of onlookers gathered on the spot following the accident as the train was stopped to retrieve a body that got entangled beneath the engine.

The bodies were later shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for legal formalities.

The deceased were identified as Yasmeen, 48, Noori Begum 40, and Rifa’at Jehan, 35. Police said that the deceased were resident of Shah Faisal Colony No 4.