India, April 22 -- A 24-year-old woman who put up a fight against robbers on the Kamakhya-Gaya Express on Tuesday morning was thrown off the train near Sabaur railway station in Bhagalpur district of Bihar, killing her, police said.

The deceased, Kajal Kumari, was a graduate from Bhagalpur's TNB College, and had been preparing for competitive examinations for a job in the banking sector, her family told the police. Kajal, a resident of Khagaria district, was travelling from Kamakhya to Bhagalpur on the train with her parents and two younger siblings, a sister and brother when the incident took place.

In his complaint to the Bhagalpur GRP, her father said they were travelling in the S-3 coach of 15620 Kamakhya Gaya Express train when the...