The accident occurred at the Central Railway's Gulabganj railway station, about 20 km from here, after a wrong announcement was allegedly made about the train.

The railway station has no foot overbridge, because of which people cross the tracks to reach the station.

This morning, at the station an announcement was made for a train leaving on the up line. Hearing the announcement, some people, including the children, tried to cross the down line by crawling under a goods train which was stationed there. However, the station master wrongly issued a green signal for the goods train, which suddenly started moving crushing the two children under it to death, railway police said. The children - Mohammad Ali (5) and his eight-year-old sister, whose name was yet to be ascertained - died on the spot.