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Kolkata metro service partly hit as woman commits suicide

| | Jul 31, 2017, at 03:58 am
Kolkata, Jul 30 (IBNS): Metro rail service in Kolkata was partly disrupted on Sunday evening after a young woman committed suicide at Mahatma Gandhi (MG) Road station, reports said.

According to reports, a woman jumped in front of a Kavi Subhas bound approaching train at around 5:25 pm.

Following the incident, metro service in both direction was partly hit for nearly half-an-hour, a metro official said.

A security official of metro rail said that the woman was killed on spot after being hit by the train.

Identity of the lady is yet to be established, a police official told IBNS.

(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)

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