The incident took place shortly after railway employees on Thursday evening went on a flash strike. Pics/Ashish Raje, Rajendra B. Aklekar and Aishwarya Iyer
The group was walking along the tracks when a train approached, and they were unable to move away in time, sources said
Unions representing Central Railway's employees stopped suburban local train operations at the busy CSMT for nearly an hour on Thursday evening to oppose the FIR against engineers in the Mumbra accident case
Train services resumed after senior officials assured the protesters that they would pursue the matter with the state authorities
According to Dr Swapnil Nila, Chief Public Relations Officer of Central Railway, the situation was quickly pacified, and train operations resumed at 6.45 pm from CSMT
Heavy rush of commuters were witnessed at Thane and CSMT stations among others on the Central Railway lines
Some of the closed-door AC local trains were also seen operating with open-doors on late Thursday evening due to heavy passengers rush
The railway employees union did not allegedly allow motormen and train managers to operate trains during the evening rush hours, sources said
Train services resumed after senior officials assured the protesters they would pursue the matter with state authorities
By that time heavy rush of commuters had already gathered at the stations on Central Railway line leading to chaos, sources said
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