The boy, who lived with his parents near the railway tracks, ran out of home after being scolded by parents over a family issue when a speeding train ran him over, Sub-Divisional Police Officer (Chakradharpur), Subodh Kumar Jaiswal said.
The boy's mother with her three-year-old younger son in lap rushed out to save him but she too came under the wheels of the train while a hand of her younger son was cut off, he said.