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PUNE: A 58-year-old Brigadier-rank Army officer allegedly committed suicide by jumping before a moving train at the Pune railway station on Sunday, railway police said.
The deceased, a male officer, was currently serving at the city-based Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC), they said. The victim came to the railway station with his driver. Leaving the driver outside, he went to platform number 3 and jumped before the Udyan Express around 12.15 pm and died, Superintendent of Police (GRP), Sadanand Wayse-Patil, said.
No suicide note was recovered from him, he said. As per the CCTV footage, the Army officer was seen lingering on platform 3 and even tried to jump before the Chennai Express, but could not succeed, he said. A spokesperson of the Army s Southern Command issued a brief statement, which said that the information about the death of an Army person at the Pune railway station was reported by the railway police to the d