Beed (Maharashtra), Nov 5 (PTI) An unidentified man standing on railway tracks was killed after being hit by a passenger train in Maharashtra's Beed district, police said.
The incident occurred on Wednesday morning on the newly operational Ahilyanagar-Beed railway route at Loni Syedmeer village in Ashti tehsil, they said.
The train was heading from Ahilyanagar towards Beed when the motorman saw the man standing on the tracks and sounded the horn, but he did not move and was struck. The man died on the spot, a police official said.
The motorman immediately alerted the police, who sent the body for post-mortem and later shifted it to a mortuary at the Beed District Government Hospital.
The man, believed to be in his 40s, was wearing a brown shirt and blue trousers at the time of the incident, the official said.
The police have appealed to the public to help establish his identity.
