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| Wednesday, 31 December 2003 |
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Panadura group correspondent Kapila Somaratne A mother of two children, a pregnant woman was run over by a train bound to Panadura from Moratuwa on Monday (22) evening. She lost her two legs, police said. When she was running towards the rail track near the Panadura rail bridge to pick a gunny bag of saw dust thrown out by a person who travelled in the morning train for sale she slipped and fell on the track. The train ran over her severing her two legs below the knee. The people near the bridge despatched her to the Panadura Base Hospital, leaving the severed legs on the rail track. Her husband Luxman Soysa rushed to the scene carrying a polythene bag picked the two legs severed from her wife's body and rushed to the Panadura police. He was referred to the Panadura Base Hospital which is situated in front of the Panadura new police station on Galle Road. The hospital authorities refused to accept the severed legs from Luxman Soysa, the husband of Kusumalatha. At the time, injured Kusumalatha had been transferred to the Accident Ward of the Colombo National Hospital for urgent medical attention. Then Luxman Soysa, weeping as to what to do with the two legs of his wife severed from below the knee joint, kept it in the bag near the hospital premises and again went to the Panadura police. He made a complaint stating that a train had run over his pregnant wife Kusumalatha. Her two legs below the knee joints were severed. He brought the severed legs to the Panadura hospital but the hospital authorities refused to accept. He wanted to hand over his two children to someone to look after. Making the entry for future reference, he said he wanted to commit suicide. He again came to the hospital carrying the severed legs kept in the bag and attempted to hand over it to the hospital mortuary, but hospital authorities refused. They asked Luxman Soysa to take the two severed legs and bury it in a cemetery. So he went to the cemetery and buried it and went to see his wife lying at the National Hospital Accident Ward. Her life was saved by the surgeon of the National Hospital, performing an emergency operation. Now she is a disabled pregnant woman having two children. Who will help her family. Over to Social Service Department. |
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