Newborn survives fall from train
A newborn baby has escaped unhurt after being delivered in the toilet
of a moving Indian train and then falling onto the tracks, reports said
Thursday. Rinku Debu Ray, 28, suddenly went into labour late Tuesday
while on board an express train that was passing through the state of
West Bengal.
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Rinku Debu Ray with her newborn baby. AFP |
According to the Times of India and Hindustan Times, Ray delivered
the baby in the toilet of her carriage and the newborn infant slipped
through the discharge chute and onto the tracks below. The distraught
Ray immediately jumped from the train, prompting passengers to pull the
emergency cord in the belief that she was trying to commit suicide.
"We got off the train and started looking for my wife," husband Bhola
Ray, 33, told the Hindustan Times.
"After an hour, we found Rinku sitting beside the track with the baby
in her lap," he said.
Mother and child reboarded the train and were taken to the nearest
station and then to hospital, where doctors pronounced them both in good
health.
"This was a miracle," station manager Shyama Prasad Mukherjee told
the Times of India.
In a similar incident in February 2008, a baby girl, born
prematurely, fell through a train carriage toilet in the western state
of Gujarat.
She was found on the tracks two hours later, not only alive but
almost completely unharmed. Kolkata, AFP
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