7 children run over by train

PATNA, AUG. 23. Seven children were killed today when the Awadh Express ran over them while they were watching a track repair near Chanpattia station in Bettiah district, about 250 km from here.

The train, running between Muzaffarpur and Bandra, was about to reach the Chanpattia station when the children, who were engrossed in watching a machine in operation, came under the wheels of the train, the Chief Public Relations Officer at Gorakhpur, headquarters of the North Eastern Railway, Mr. Ran Vijay Singh, told PTI over phone.

The train driver warned the children by blowing the horn but they did not hear it.

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