Dhanbad, Apr 24 (PTI) A Railway Protection Force constable was found lying on a railway track with both his legs amputated in Jharkhand's Dhanbad district on Monday morning, an RPF official said.

The constable, identified as Ranjit Kumar, was spotted by passers-by on the busy Howrah-New Delhi Grand Chord line of Dhanbad railway division near Barmasia railway gate. They immediately got him admitted to the divisional railway hospital with the help of RPF personnel.

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Dhanbad RPF inspector Pankaj Kumar told media persons that circumstances suggest that the constable fell from a running train and lost both his legs.

"Since he was senseless, how the incident took place could not be known yet," he said.

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