Two crushed to death under train while shooting stunts

New Delhi: Two students were crushed to death under a train here, police said on Monday, adding that the two were trying to shoot a stunt video.

Police said the incident took place on Saturday evening when seven students of a near by government school had reached Akshardham railway tracks to shoot the video.

According to a railway police official, the students reached the tracks at 5 p.m. and they were trying to shoot a video which shows two of them escaping a rail accident by jumping from the track.

"The students had hired a video camera for this task. Shubham and Yash out of seven students were standing on the railway tracks while five others were shooting their stunts to make a video. When the speeding train reached close to them, they could not jump from the track in time and came under its wheels," the official said.-Agency