Two sisters run over by train in Bangalore

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Bangalore, August 11, 2014:  Two sisters, who came down to the City to tie ‘rakhi’ to their brother, met with a tragic end when a train ran over them near Chikkabanavara on August 9 night.  Umadevi, 28 and Radha, 22, natives of Kalyandurg town in Andhra Pradesh, had come to Bangalore to tie ‘rakhi’ on the occasion of ‘Raksha Bandhan’ for their brother who lives in Chikkabanavara. Around 8 pm that day, as they were walking to the Chikkabanavara railway station to board a train to return to their hometown, they noticed a train bound for the City on one track but failed to spot another train coming on the other track. The outbound train ran them over, said a railway police officer. Umadevi was said to be the president of a gram panchayat. Youth

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