Bhubaneswar, Dec. 3: An Army jawan was lynched by irate train commuters after he tried to stop them from entering the reserved coach of a train at the Lingaraj Railway Station on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar on Monday night.

Anish Kumar A, a cook with the Gorkha Rifles, was beaten to death by passengers trying to board the Howrah-Chennai Coromandel Express.

Kumar was first admitted to the divisional railway hospital at the Khurda Road station and later shifted to the SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack, where the doctors declared him dead.

Nobody has been arrested so far, the railway police said. (ANI)