Poverty-Stricken Minor Sisters Kill Themselves By Jumping In Front Of Speeding Train

Two minor sisters allegedly killed themselves by jumping in front of a freight train in the Dibiyapur area of India’s Uttar Pradesh, police said.

The lifeless bodies of the two sisters, 17-year-old Sapna, 17, and 16-year-old Poonam, were found near the Kanchausi railway station along the Delhi-Howrah route on Monday, April 25, authorities added.

"After a preliminary investigation, the bodies were sent for post-mortem examination," a police source told Daiji World.

According to local media reports, the girls’ family was in extreme poverty and this could have driven the siblings to take such an extreme step.

Their father, Ashok Nath, died three years ago and their mother is bed-ridden from a chronic ailment.

Extreme poverty had forced the teens to drop out of school and work as daily wage laborers to run the house and deal with expenses of their mother's treatment, sources said.

The sisters went missing from their house on Monday morning. Their relatives were searching for the girls when they were alerted about the bodies on the railway track.

Laborers working in nearby fields had spotted the mutilated bodies and informed the police control room.

"We are working on every possible aspect to corroborate the exact cause of their death," Superintendent of Police, Abhishek Verma, said,

This is an ongoing investigation and no further details were revealed at the time of this writing.

A similar incident was reported from Bengaluru, India, where a man reportedly killed himself by jumping in front of a train after he was blackmailed via Instagram over the leak of his obscene pictures.

The 24-year-old engineer’s dead body was recovered from the railway tracks in Malleshwaram on Jan. 25.

Authorities initially believed that the youth killed himself over personal matters, however, further investigation into the incident revealed threatening and blackmail messages on the victim’s cellphone.

The inquiry later revealed that the victim was blackmailed through Instagram. This made the officers suspect that the youth could be a victim of an online extortion gang called the "Nude Gang."

"Nude Gang" is a notorious inter-state gang operating at the national level, especially in metro cities, and is famous for trapping youth through dating apps and later blackmailing them to extort money from their victims.