A 24-year-old footballer died after falling off a moving train in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district of India on Saturday.
The incident happened when the victim, identified as Kouadio Mathieu, was on his way to Sealdah from Barrackpore when he suddenly fell off a moving train near Gandhi Prem Niwas in Titagarh.
Kouadio Mathieu passport showed that he is a footballer from Ivory Coast.
Report says he was severely injured in the accident and somehow managed to drag himself to an ashram which was near the railway tracks.
Some locals took him to a nearby hospital where he gave up the ghost after two hours.
The footballer was on his way to play a football match when the mishap occurred.
However, Police have started an investigation into the death of the player.
Punch / Titilayo Kupoliyi
