Mangaluru: NRI’s 6-yr-old son crushed to death by train in front of brother

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September 24, 2017

Mangaluru, Sept 24: A six-year-old boy, who was returning home after purchasing chocolates, was run over by a train near the Mahakalipadpu railway level crossing here on Saturday.

The victim has been identified as Muhammad Hussain Haafil (6), the eldest son among three children of Anwar and Shameena couple from Mahakalipadpu, and a Class 2 student of Cassia St Rita English Medium School, Jeppu. Anwar, has been working in Saudi Arabia as a driver for past six months. 

According to the Government Railway Police, Haafil, returned from the school around noon to his house across the double railway track between Nethravati Cabin and Mangaluru Junction Railway Station.

After sometime, he went with his younger brother Muhammad Junaid (4) and two others to a shop across the railway track to buy chocolates.

While returning from the shop, Train No 22629 Dadar-Tirunelveli was on its way from Manglauru Junction towards the Netravati Cabin.

Mohammed Haafil got hit by the train and was dragged for a distance of nearly 80 metres. Fortunately, his younger brother managed to cross the double track in time. 

Local residents soon rushed to the spot and took the mutilated body to a hospital.

The victim’s mother had instructed the kids to buy chocolates from a nearby shop. However, they had to cross the tracks as that particular shop was closed, sources said. 

The railway police personnel said that this was the first such accident on the double track near Nethravati Cabin, though movement of trains is clearly visible.

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Asif
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Sunday, 24 Sep 2017

Inna Lillahi Wa Inna Ilaihi Rajioon... Very sad indeed.

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"Two SAP India employees based in Bangalore (RMZ Ecoworld office) have tested positive for the H1N1 virus. Detailed contact tracing that the infected colleagues may have come into contact with is underway," SAP India said in an emailed statement.

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The district has been completely locked down since Monday morning, on the directive of the Central Government. Prohibitory orders have been slapped in the district since Sunday night to restrict socialisation of the people.

As the person now in isolation have allegedly been non-cooperative, the authorities were finding it difficult to sketch out a rote map as his movement and socialisation has been so vast and wide since his arrival here on March 12.

The middle aged and popular NRI who landed at Karipur airpprt on March 11 had been in Calicut till midnight prior to boarding the Maveli Express to make it to his hometown Kasaragod, which is 160 kms away from Calicut. He had come into contact with very many, including two MLAs of the district, prior to getting tested positive and getting isolated in the hospital.

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The death of the cats has evoked anxiety in the backdrop of a tiger in a zoo in United States tested positive for Covid-19 recently.

It was recently that the hospital authorities had noticed the death of the cats, which include two male and a female adult and two kittens, were long been seen in and around the hospital compound.

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