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West Bengal: Body of youth recovered from a bag in local train, investigation on

| @indiablooms | Feb 26, 2020, at 04:36 pm

Kolkata/IBNS: Body of an 'unidentified' youth, which was stuffed in a trolley bag, was found inside an EMU local train near Mecheda railway station in East Medinipur district of West Bengal on Tuesday late night, reports said on Wednesday.

According to reports, railway sweepers discovered the bagged body while cleaning the rake at Mecheda EMU carshed at around 10:30 pm. and they had informed the Railway Protection Force (RPF) and Government Railway Police (GRP) officials posted in nearby Mecheda station.

"Our personnel recovered a nearly 35-year-old man's body, which was stuffed inside a red trolley bag, from 38313 Up Howra-Mecheda EMU train's compartment last night," a senior GRP official told IBNS.

"We are monitoring CCTV footage of all stations between Howrah and Mecheda to confirm from where and by whom the trolley bag was boarded the local train, the official said.

"We have found multiple injury marks on the body which indicate the youth may have been murdered and his there was an attempt to traffic the body," he added.

However, an investigation has been initiated into the matter while the body has been sent to Tamluk district hospital for post-mortem, according to officials.

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