The railway department says that two women who tried to board a running train before it stopped got stuck between two carriages this evening.
This accident happened at around 4.35 pm. The incident took place when the train from Colombo Fort to Kandy was arriving at the Colombo Fort railway station.
Both women were seriously injured and were taken to hospital for treatment, they said.
Eyewitnesses of the incident said that the people present at the Fort railway station and the railway employees made a concerted effort to rescue the women from the train carriages.