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The Awadh Express, running between Muzaffarpur and Bandra (Bombay, Maharashtra), was nearing Chanpatta station when the children, who were engrossed in watching a machine in operation, came under the wheels of the train, chief public relations officer at Gorakhpur, headquarters of the North-Eastern Railway, Vijay Singh informed.
Singh said the driver of the train did his best to warn the children by blowing the horn, but they did not hear the warning and were run over.
An inquiry has been ordered into the accident, he said.
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