Three persons, including a one-year-old child and a woman, were found dead on the tracks near the Elathur railway station, hours after a man allegedly set afire a co-passenger and injured eight others on board an express train.

A senior police official from the district told PTI that the bodies of a woman, a child and a man were recovered from the tracks late Sunday night. The three were missing from the train after the fire incident on Sunday, he added.