Vadodara: A 65-year-old woman and her 32-year-old son died after being run over by a train in Bodeli taluka of Chhota Udepur district on Tuesday.The incident occurred when Ganji Baria and her son, Paresh Baria, were crossing a narrow railway bridge over the Narmada canal on their way to a nearby field.“They were going towards the other side of the canal when they were run over by the Pratapnagar-Alirajpur passenger train,” said sub-inspector A J Pandya of Dabhoi railway police station.The bridge does not have space for pedestrians to move aside when a train approaches, police said, adding that the deceased were residents of Jain Faliya in Bodeli.According to eyewitness Navalsinh Baria, the duo spotted the approaching train and attempted to cross the bridge. “I thought they had sat down, but when their bodies fell into the canal below, I realised they had been run over by the train,” he said.
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