It is mind the gap time for Mumbai again after a spate of accidents, near misses and huge tragedies, thanks to people putting life and limb at risk trying to board and alight moving trains.

On Monday, a 53-year-old man from Bhusaval alighted from a train at Kalyan railway station to get water. The train started moving and he tried to board it, but slipped in the gap instead. He was declared dead. On Sunday, two sisters from Solapur who were in Mumbai for GRP recruitment exams, were trying to board the Chennai Express from Dadar. One sister boarded the train but panicked when she saw her sibling could not get on. Overwrought, she actually foolishly jumped from a moving train. She was saved from falling into the gap after the railway police pulled her away. On Saturday, a doctor tried to make a quick exit from the moving train he was traveling in, but died after he got pulled into the gap between the train and the platform at the Panvel railway station. He lost his balance, fell on the platform and got sucked into the gap.