Angry passengers on Monday turned the tables on six armed train robbers in eastern India, beating them to death with sticks and umbrellas, police said. The robbers struck as the train approached a small station, Mayur Halt, nearly 90 kilometres north of Calcutta, the capital of West Bengal state, said police Insp.-Gen. Chayan Mukherjee. Passengers who were robbed alerted others in the train. As the train came to a halt, the robbers tried to flee but were chased and beaten with sticks, stones and umbrellas, Mukherjee said. "The robbers were dead when police reached the spot," he said. Train robberies are common in eastern India.
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