A 60-year-old train passenger from Kerala, Ali Khan TK, has died in a private hospital after suffering a severe neck injury caused by the accidental detachment of a middle berth on the Millennium Express.
Ali Khan was traveling from Thrissur to Agra Cantonment on June 16. He occupied the lower berth of a sleeper coach when the middle berth, reportedly chained improperly, detached and fell on him. The impact caused Ali Khan to lose consciousness.
Railway staff were alerted to the incident around 6:30 pm and made an unscheduled stop at Ramagundam to detrain Ali Khan and rush him to a nearby hospital. He was later transferred to a private hospital in Warangal and subsequently to another private hospital in Begumpet, Hyderabad, for advanced treatment.