Irate mob lynches soldier on train near Bhubaneswar

Bhubaneswar, Dec 3: Irate train commuters on Monday, Dec 1 lynched an army jawan after he tried to stop them from entering the reserved coach of a train in at the Lingaraj Railway Station on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar. Anish Kumar A, a cook with the Gorkha Rifles, was beaten to death by passengers trying to board the Howrah-Chennai Coromandel Express.

Kumar was first admitted to the divisional railway hospital at the Khurda Road station and later shifted to the SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack, where the doctors declared him dead. Railway police said that no arrests are made so far.

ANI