Train services between Dum Dum and Belghoria were suspended for one-and-a-half hours on Tuesday after a group of people put up a blockade to protest the deaths of a girl and her grandfather who were crossing the tracks on the way to her school.

The blockade was raised with the demand for a footbridge in front of Agnisikha club between Dum Dum and Belghoria where the two were run over by a Sealdah-bound train around 10.45am.

The deceased were Juin Dhar, a Class I student of Baranagar Tirtha Bharati School, and her grandfather, Rajat Dhar, 67. She was scheduled to write her Bengali exam on Tuesday.

Local residents and guardians of the students who cross the tracks in the area put up the blockades at 12.05pm. The protest was withdrawn at 1.25pm after police had promised to take up the demand for the footbridge with Eastern Railway.

A protester said the road to the school remained crowded by traffic and hence, children had to take a shortcut by crossing the tracks. “Many accidents had occurred at the spot earlier,” said Chhaya Chatterjee, a local resident.

Six pairs of trains between Sealdah and Barrackpore had to be cancelled following the blockade.