Cop's arm severed, police driver injured while removing bodies from railway track in MP's Damoh
Damoh (MP), Nov 11: A sub-inspector lost his arm, and a police vehicle driver sustained injuries when they were struck by a train while responding to the scene of a double fatality on the railway tracks.
The incident occurred near the Karaiya Bhadoli railway station, about 260 km away from Bhopal on Sunday evening.
According to Superintendent of Police Shrut Kirti Somvanshi, Assistant Sub-Inspector Rajendra Mishra, the in-charge of Bandakpur police post, arrived at the location after reports surfaced that two men had fallen from a moving train and died.
Initial investigations show that while Mishra and his team were in the process of removing the duo's bodies from the tracks, a train unexpectedly approached and struck them.
Eyewitnesses reported that one individual attempted to pull Mishra out, but in the attempt, Mishra's right arm was severed, and he also sustained head injuries.
"The exact circumstances of the incident will be clear once the injured officers are able to speak," SP Somvanshi told PTI here.
When asked how the cops were unable to hear the sound of an approaching train, the SP said, "It remains a mystery as to why they did not hear the train approaching. We have heard that they might have been engaged in phone calls during the incident, but this information will have to be verified."
Rahul Raikwar, who was accompanying the deceased, said Mishra was preparing 'panchnama' (spot assessment report) when he saw a goods train coming from the opposite direction on an adjacent railway track.
"He told us a train is coming and asked everyone to get back. But he could not see another train coming from behind on another track. The goods train hit his hand. The deceased Neeraj Singh Lodhi (22) and Abhishek Lodhi (21), me and two others work as waiters and were going to Raipur on the Bhopal-Bilaspur train," Raikwar said.
"Neeraj and Abhishek fell from the train and died. The two were going to the toilet when they fell. I pulled the train's alarm chain but it did not stop. After it halted at Bandakpur station eight kilometres from the accident spot, I informed the station master," Raikwar added.
Raikwar said he and others walked along the tracks to reach the spot where Neeraj and Abhishek fell.
Both Mishra and the injured driver, Yawar Khan, were shifted to the Government Medical College here and then to a private hospital.
Surgeon Prashant Yadav of Metro Hospital in Jabalpur said replantation of Mishra's arm was not done since there was fear of infection during surgery.
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Pakistan reports two more polio cases; Total tally now 52
ISLAMABAD: At least two more cases of poliovirus were reported in Pakistan, taking the number of infections to 52 so far this year, a report said on Friday.
“The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health has confirmed the detection of two more wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases in Pakistan," an official statement said.
The fresh infections — a boy and a girl — were reported from the Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
“Genetic sequencing of the samples collected from the children is underway," the statement read. Dera Ismail Khan, one of the seven polio-endemic districts of southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has reported five polio cases so far this year.
Of the 52 cases in the country this year, 24 are from Balochistan, 13 from Sindh, 13 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and one each from Punjab and Islamabad.
There is no cure for polio. Only multiple doses of the oral polio vaccine and completion of the routine vaccination schedule for all children under the age of five can keep them protected.
