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Seven railway gangmen [labourers] were killed and three seriously injured when a train ran over them in Visakhapatnam district of Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday.
According to police officials, the Koraput-Visakhapatnam Express hit the labourers, who were employed through a contractor, working on the track near Pendurthy railway station around 1600 IST.
The train was stopped for a while at Pendurthy. Rail traffic remained unaffected.
Police and railway officials had reached the spot and started investigations.
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