Trader thrown out of train, dies

A West Bengal-based trader died after being thrown out of a train by some passengers following a dispute over a seat near Muzaffarnagar Railway Station.

Sheikh Rahmatulla was on his way to Amritsar from Delhi when some passengers boarded the Jalandhar-Amritsar Express at Muzaffarnagar yesterday and asked him to vacate the seat, according to Government Railway Police.

Soon a confrontation took place following which the passengers threw him out of the train, they said.

The victim was rushed to a district hospital in a serious condition where he was declared dead. The body has been sent for postmortem.