woman struck by Mumbai-bound Vande Bharat Express close to Anand, Gujarat

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• Nov 9, 2022 | Sourav Boruah

 Digital Desk: Tuesday, a 54-year-old woman was struck and killed by the
Mumbai-bound Vande Bharat Express train close to the Anand train station in
Gujarat.

Beatrice Archibald Peter has been named as the victim. According to the report, which also cited an official, she was
crossing the track at the time of the accident at 4.37 p.m.

The train was
travelling from Gandhinagar Capital station to Mumbai Central Anand is not
where it stops. The report stated that additional research was being conducted.

The incident
happened the day after it was reported that stones were thrown at a Vande
Bharat train carrying Asaduddin Owaisi, the party president, in Gujarat, a
state where elections are imminent. Police, however, refuted the assertion and
stated that they were still looking into the Monday incident.

In the past
month, there have been at least three instances of animals dying on the track
after being struck by trains.

In Gujarat's
Valsad, at 8:30 a.m. on October 29, a cow was struck by a Mumbai-Gandhinagar
Vande Bharat Superfast Express train, causing damage to the engine's nose
cover.

Since the semi-high speed train was introduced on September 30 and
was built and manufactured locally, there had been three instances of
train-cattle collisions. The train's initial voyage had been signaled off by
Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Two identical occurrences involving livestock being ran over by
the newly launched Vande Bharat Express happened in the first week of October.
On October 6, a train travelling from Mumbai to Gandhinagar struck four
buffaloes between the railway stations of Vatva and Maninagar in Gujarat,
killing them. The damage required an overnight replacement of its nose panel.
The second incident happened the following day, on October 7, when the train
struck a cow while travelling to Mumbai through Gujarat's Anand region.