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Three persons, including an infant and a woman, were found dead on the tracks near the Elathur railway station in Kozhikode last night after a man allegedly set afire a co-passenger and injured eight others on board an express train.
The mishap occurred in the Alappuzha-Kannur Executive Express last night on reaching the Korapuzha railway bridge, an unidentified man poured an inflammable liquid on a co-passenger and set him on a fire resulting in burn injuries to at least eight persons. The man escaped soon after the incident, while the injured were shifted to hospitals after passengers pulled the emergency chain. Probe is on in the incident and the Police officials suspect that the fire accident was premeditated.