Bantwal, Jan 18, 2014 : An elderly woman lost her life after she was hit by a train near the railway cross at Manimajalu in Goltamajalu village of Bantwal taluk on January 17, Friday evening.

The deceased woman is Shanthi (65), wife of late Uggappa Poojari of Manimajalu. The train knocked her down while she was standing near the railway cross on her way back home. She is learnt to have died on the spot.
Sources said her husband had died of a heart attack some time back and she stayed with her daughter. Railway police have registered a case.