A pensioner in India was killed when he was struck by a cow that was tossed 30m up in the air after it was hit by an express train. The freak accident happened when Mr Shivdayal Sharma, 82, was relieving himself on the railway tracks in the city of Alwar at India’s...
A pensioner in India was killed when he was struck by a cow that was tossed 30m up in the air after it was hit by an express train.
The freak accident happened when Mr Shivdayal Sharma, 82, was relieving himself on the railway tracks in the city of Alwar at India’s northern state of Rajasthan on April 18.Another man who was also relieving himself nearby narrowly escaped from being hit by the flying animal. The police who were informed of the incident sent the body to a nearby hospital for post-mortem, before it was handed over to Mr Shivdayal’s relative for cremation.
Cattle deaths from train collisions are not new in India. Government data showed that trains in the country ran over more than 13,000 cattle in 2022, a 24 per cent rise from 2019.
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