India, Nov. 7 -- When nearly 200 employees of the Central Railway (CR) gathered at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) during the rush hour on Thursday evening, they had only one agenda - to protest against two CR engineers being booked over the mishap in Mumbra on June 9, in which five passengers died after falling from two overcrowded local trains crossing each other during the morning rush hour.

The protest, however, took a deadly turn as cancellation and delays in more than 80 local train services compelled passengers to take desperate measures. Two commuters, who were walking along the railway tracks to CSMT, were mowed down by an Ambernath-bound local near Sandhurst Road station after services resumed around 6.45pm. Thr...