Train driver brakes for lady in red

Patna: A woman in red attempting suicide on the railway track in Bihar was rescued after the engine driver applied the brakes after seeing red clothes.

Reports said the woman wearing red clothes fled her home on Sunday and lay on the railway tracks in Bhagalpur district in a bid to end her life.

The driver of the Dhulian passenger train, which runs from Jaynagar to Kolkata, noticed ‘some red objects’ on the track from afar and hastily applied the emergency brake, witnesses said. But on reaching the spot, he found a woman lying on the track in a bid to end her life.

Instantly, information was conveyed to the local police who rushed to the spot and took the woman to the police station. During interrogation, she told the police that she had a strained relationship with her husband and hence wanted to die.

Subsequently, the police called her husband to the police station and counseled them.

“I wanted death but got life. I can’t believe it,” the woman said.

Last December, a 12-year-old boy saved the lives of hundreds of passengers after alerting the train driver about a broken railway track by flagging his red shirt. He ran on the tracks, all the while flagging his red shirt, until the driver noticed and halted the train in Bihar’s West Champaran district.