Bhubaneswar: April 8: Mancheswar police today recovered the body of a 30-year-old trader from Shantipalli slum who was run over by a train. This is the third such fatality in less than a month.

Police said he came under the wheels of a train last night at Bomikhal level crossing. The man has been identified as Sagar Nayak.

Relatives of the trader, who live in the Shantipalli slum, found him lying on the railway track in the morning and took the body to the slum. Police later seized the body which was sent for post-mortem before being handed over to the family.

Sagar was staying with his wife and a two-year-old son in Kenal Bandha, which falls in Mancheswar police station limits.

“Last night he had come to our house and gone to a betel shop on the other side of the railway track. Eyewitnesses said that he was crossing the track when he was hit by a train,” said Muna Nayak, the nephew of the deceased. He said they found him lying on the track this morning.

Police said the trader was crossing the tracks in an inebriated state. A case of unnatural death has been registered at Mancheswar police station.

On March 16, two IIT students died after a passenger train hit them while they were crossing the railway track under Satya Nagar over-bridge. They were unmindfully crossing the track when the Khorda Kharagpur Express, which was coming from Bhubaneswar station, ran them over.

According to Government Railway Police sources, 30 people have died on the railway tracks in Bhubaneswar in the last three months. Railway police registered 95 such cases in 2010. Railway officials said that it was the ignorance of people that was leading to a rise in the number of such incidents.