Armed men gang rob passengers of three trains in Kanpur

TIL Desk/National/Kanpur- Several train passengers, many of them sleeping, were robbed by armed men early this morning at a railway station in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur. The gang attacked three trains that were waiting for clearance to leave.

Among the trains that were robbed, the #VaishaliExpress and the #LokmanyaTilakExpress are #superfasttrains. After going from train to train looting passengers, the men ran away. The railway police say they robbers have not been identified.

“Our trains were at Kanpur outer near a bridge. I saw a passenger stabbed in his thigh,” said Railway policeman Shyamvrat Singh Yadav. Uttar Pradesh’s #AkhileshYadav government is facing opposition attacks over crime in the state, where elections will be held in a few months.