<p> Kozhikode, Apr 3 (PTI): Three persons, including a one-year-old child and a woman, were found dead on the tracks near the Elathur railway station here, hours after a man allegedly set afire a co-passenger and injured eight others on board an express train.</p><p> A senior police official from the district told PTI that the bodies of a woman, a child and a man were recovered from the tracks late Sunday night.</p><p> The three were missing from the train after the fire incident on Sunday, he added.</p><p> At around 9.45 pm, when the Alappuzha-Kannur Executive Express train reached the Korapuzha railway bridge here after crossing Kozhikode city, an unidentified man poured an inflammable liquid on a co-passenger and set him on a fire resulting in burn injuries to at least eight persons, police said.</p><p> The man escaped soon after the incident, while the injured were shifted to hospitals after passengers pulled the emergency chain.</p><p> When the train reached Kannur, a few passengers complained that a woman and a child were missing after the incident.</p><p> "A man, who was injured, kept looking for a woman and a child. We found footwear and a mobile phone of that woman," a passenger told the media at Kannur.</p><p> Soon after the news of the missing persons came out, the city police inspected the tracks and found three bodies, including the woman and the child and a mid-aged man.</p><p> Police suspect they fell off the train or attempted to deboard after seeing the fire.</p><p> "The woman and the child who went missing were found dead on the tracks. There is one unidentified body of a male. We have found CCTV visuals of the suspect. Investigation is on," a senior police official of the district said.</p><p> Sources said the woman was the child's aunt.</p><p> A total of nine persons have been admitted to various hospitals, including the Kozhikode Medical College, for treatment Further details are awaited. PTI RRT AQS AQS</p><p><i>(This story is published as part of the auto-generated syndicate wire feed. No editing has been done in the headline or the body by ABP Live.)</i></p>
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