Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation – At least two people were killed and three injured after they were hit by a suburban train near Sandhurst railway station in Mumbai, Maharashtra on Thursday (November 6, 2025), Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation officials said. The incident occurred around 7 pm, when four passengers were hit by a local train near the pole between Sandhurst Road railway station and CSMT station.

Services on the Central Railway line were disrupted after the incident. All four injured were sent to JJ Hospital. The five people brought to the hospital have been identified as Yafiza Chogle (62), Haley Mohamaya (19), Kaif Chogle (22), Khushboo Mohamaya (45) and the fifth person is yet to be identified.

Ahead of the accident, unions representing Central Railway employees on Thursday had stopped suburban local train operations for about an hour in the evening at the busy Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus to protest against the FIR against engineers in the Mumbra accident case that occurred on June 9, in which four people died. Due to the protest, passengers remained stranded at CSMT station for an hour. According to railway officials, services were disrupted between 5.

50 pm. Till 6.

45 pm and resume only after that. After protests by people crossing the tracks, the first train left from CSMT. Central Railway spokesperson Swapnil Neela said, “The speed of the train is high, it is not possible to stop immediately with reaction time or to stop in the dark.

We are continuously requesting people not to walk on the railway tracks. ” Asked whether the accident was a casualty of the earlier protest, Mr Neela dodged the question and said it could be confirmed only after investigation into the accident.