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On January 2, an elderly man died after being hit by a train near Mohkampur railway crossing. Dehradun: Two incidents of persons being hit by speeding trains and dying on the tracks have happened in the last few days in the city. The accident took place around 5 30 to 6 am,” said Rajesh Shah, inspector of Nehru Colony police station.The accidents on railway tracks once again accentuate the extreme caution that people must exercise while crossing railway lines. Therefore, people must avoid such fatal shortcuts,” he said.Notably, according to the ministry of railways, around 50,000 people have lost their lives in India in the last three years on railway tracks after being hit by trains. On Wednesday, a TOI team did a ground check of the railway line near Nehru colony where Tuesday’s accident took place, and found many people crossing the railway line arbitrarily.“I cross this railway line so that I can reach my college early,” Mahesh Kumar, a 21-year-old student from Deep Nagar, said.He even claimed to have narrowly escaped a fast train on one occasion..