New Delhi (ANTARA/IRNA) - Fifteen Indian youths were killed and several others injured Tuesday when they fell from the roof of two speeding trains crammed with job aspirants returning from an Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) recruitment camp in Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh.

The incidents triggered violent protests as angry youths torched a train.

Fourteen youths, travelling atop the Himgiri Express, were killed when they were hit by an overbridge near Shahjahanpur while another ITBP job-seeker died when he fell from the Traveni Express in Hardoi district, pti reported quoting District Magistrate of Shahjahanpur Ajay Chauhan as said.

Agitated over the death of the youths, the job aspirants ran amok at Shahjahanpur station torching two bogies of the Jammu-Tawi Express and manhandling the driver of the Himgiri train.

Chauhan said train driver Mohammad Asif was assaulted by the mob but maintained only one coach was torched.(*)

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