Woman thrown off train in Madhya Pradesh

Bhopal: A young woman was seriously injured after being thrown off a moving train in Madhya Pradesh when she resisted an attempt to snatch her purse, the authorities said Thursday.

The incident took place when Ritu Tripathi, who works at a coaching institute in Delhi, was travelling to Ujjain on board Malwa Express.

Two youth tried to sit on her berth when the train was between Lalitpur-Beena station. When Tripathi protested, the duo left but soon returned to snatch her purse.

Tripathi managed to nab one of them, when the other youth pushed her off the train.

She fell near the track and lay comatose till she was spotted and taken to a hospital in Sagar Wednesday morning.

Avadhesh Goswami, a railway police official at Bhopal, told IANS that the condition of Ritu Tripathi is serious and they are hunting for the assailants.