Man's Severed Head Found Inside Local Train, Body Recovered From Tracks

In a horrific incident, a man's severed head was found inside a local train in India, causing panic among people.

The headless body of the man was found along the tracks on Wednesday. Authorities said they received a call about a severed head inside a train in the city of Mumbai. Officials also found blood on the door of the compartment. Following this, a team of officials began searching for the body and later found it on the tracks, the Hindustan Times reported.

Senior police officer Sunil Patil said they found the blood and hair of the man near an electric pole, near the spot where the headless body was recovered.

Initial investigation revealed the victim was travelling in the last local train which was going toward Ambernath, a city about 30 miles east of Mumbai. The police also suspect the man was on the footboard of the train and may have hit the pole when the train was in motion.

"We are checking CCTV footage and identification of the body is going on," Hindustan Times quoted Patil as saying.

Mumbai’s local rail network is the busiest commuter train system in the world with more than 7.5 million people using it daily, according to the Economic Times. The total length of rail lines that form the local network adds up to over 250 miles. A total of 2.2 billion passengers, which is about a third of the world’s population, are transported annually.

Records released by the Mumbai division of Central Railways in January showed a total of 700 people died due to railway accidents in 2020, The Free Press Journal reported. Local train services were limited last year due to the Covid-19 lockdown in the city. An railway official from the Railway Protection Force (RPF) in Mumbai told Free Press Journal that a total of 1,763 people died and 1,800 were injured in railway accidents in 2019-20. The railway official said most accidents occur when people cross from one platform to another by walking on the train tracks.