Two persons were killed and 17 injured in a stampede on a foot-over-bridge at Santragachi railway station in West Bengal on Tuesday evening after announcements were made about simultaneous arrival of trains on platforms connected by the over-bridge.

The incident occurred at around 6.30 pm between platform numbers two and three at the station in Howrah when Nagercoil-Shalimar Express and two EMU locals arrived there around the same time and passengers rushed to the platforms to board the trains, South Eastern Railway spokesman Sanjay Ghosh said.