BELAGAVI: In a horrific incident, a passenger travelling without a ticket stabbed one Railway Department employee to death and injured three others including a TTE on board the Mumbai-Bengaluru Chalukya Express when it was nearing Londa station in Belagavi district on Thursday evening.
According to a top police official, the dead railway employee was a coach attendant on board. The TTE and another passenger were also stabbed while another was assaulted by the attacker. While the coach attendant died on the spot, the TTE and two others sustained serious injuries.
After the brutal assault, the unidentified passenger jumped off the train near Khanapur railway station and fled the spot.
Belagavi Police Commissioner Lada Martin Marbaniang said the passenger entered into an argument when the TTE asked him for the ticket and suddenly began assaulting him.
When the coach attendant intervened to stop the assault on the TTE, the passenger stabbed him to death and went on a stabbing spree injuring the TTE and two others on board, said Lada Martin. Police officials have launched a search operation to nab him.
The injured were rushed to a hospital in Belagavi where Lada Martin met them on Thursday night.