Indian newborn survives fall through train toilet on to railway tracks
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Version 0 of 1. An Indian baby survived slipping down a train toilet and landing on railway tracks just moments after his mother delivered him, police have said. The 22-year-old woman fainted in a toilet cubicle on Monday after giving birth on the train, which had briefly halted before reaching Hanumangarh station in western Rajasthan state. “The woman ... felt acute labour pain, so she went to the toilet to relieve herself and gave birth to a baby boy who slipped down through the toilet bowl and fell on the tracks,” senior railway police official Subhash Vishnoi said. The train had already left for Hanumangarh by the time the woman’s family members found her unconscious in the toilet cubicle. A local guard spotted the newborn crying on the tracks and informed the police, who admitted the baby to a nearby hospital. “When the woman and her husband found their newborn alive and safe, they were very happy,” another police official, Ram Singh, said. “They had not expected that the newborn would be alive.” Most Indian trains have both western-style and squat toilets with chutes that empty directly onto the tracks. |