Indian newborn survives fall from train:
reports
KOLKATA (AFP) - – 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.
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.