Passengers on a train in India complain about an unpleasant smell. As a result, the train toilet is broken open and a man’s body is discovered. The body probably remains undiscovered for a distance of 900 kilometers. The police assume a natural cause of death.
Police in India have recovered the body of a man from a train toilet, believed to have remained undetected after a journey of 900 kilometers. A representative of the railway police in Shahjahanpur in the state of Uttar Pradesh said that it was only when passengers complained about the stench that the toilet door was forced open and the body discovered.
At the time, the express train had already been on the road for 24 hours. At first, the police couldn’t find out who the dead person was, said railroad representative Ram Sahay. The man had probably been dead for two to three days when the body was found.
According to the Times of India newspaper, police and doctors assumed that the man might have boarded the train as a stowaway in the Saharsa marshalling yard in the state of Bihar. There he locked himself in the toilet, where he then suddenly fell into a coma and died.