60-yr-old man cried hysterically near son’s body on track. Train mows him down

Police said the 60-year-old grieving father, who saw his 36-year-old son die by suicide on the rail track minutes earlier, was run over by a passing train.

BHOPAL: A 60-year-old man, crying hysterically on a railway track right next to his son’s body, was run over by a train in Madhya Pradesh’s Hoshangabad district late on Thursday evening.

Gurukaran Singh, SP of Hoshangabad district in Madhya Pradesh, said the man’s two brothers tried to alert the man to the approaching train on the rail trck but he was too stunned by the grief of losing his younger son (HT File Photo/Bachchan Kumar)

The man had seen his son die by suicide on the railway tracks moments earlier and was in a state of shock, police said.

“His two brothers tried to alert him (about the approaching train) but he didn’t hear... and the train hit him.,” said Gurukaran Singh, superintendent of police of Hoshangabad.

His 36-year-old son, the younger of his two children, had stomped out of their house in Shohagpur town just a short while earlier after a heated argument in the family. “He (son) also threatened of ending his life. The father and his two brothers also went after him,” Singh said about the heart-wrenching incident.

The son went to the railway tracks not far from the house. “He jumped before a moving train and died. The man saw the accident and started crying loudly on the track,” the district police chief said. Soon after, another train came.

The man and his son used to run a furniture shop in Shohagpur town. His elder son, 38, lived in Hoshangabad town, 70km away.

The two bodies have been handed over to the family after autopsy, said Singh.