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  • VIDEO: Muslim man praised in India for saving trapped Hindu girl

    VIDEO: Muslim man praised in India for saving trapped Hindu girl

    A video is making rounds on social media in which a man can be seen risking his life to save a girl who was trapped under a moving g train in Bhopal.

    As reported by Indian media, the incident took place on February 5. A girl, Sneha Gaur, was passing under a parked goods train and suddenly, the train started moving. When Sneha got trapped under the train, she started screaming

    A Muslim man named Mohammad Mehboob, who works as a carpenter, was rushing to a furniture factory when he saw Sneha Gaur trapped under a train.

    As the train started moving, Mohammad slid onto the tracks past the wheels to reach Sneha and ensured that she stayed down without hitting the moving wagons.

     “On February 5 evening, I was returning from the Golden Mosque after namaz on a two-wheeler. We were getting late for the furniture factory so we crossed the goods train to stand on the railway track but one of my friends was crossing it by lying down under the goods train. A young woman followed him but suddenly the goods train started moving and the woman got stuck,” said Mohammad Mehboob while talking to Indian media.

    “She panicked and people tried to tell her to lie down between the tracks but she did not understand what to do. I decided to save her and entered the track by crawling down. I held her hand and asked her to lie down silently. As many as 26 bogies passed over us. After the train passed, we stood up and the girl left without saying anything,” he added.

  • Driver who stopped train to get yogurt suspended

    An assistant driver of a train, who stopped the locomotive to fetch yogurt, has been suspended.

    Federal Minister for Railways Azam Swati took notice of the incident and immediately suspended train driver Rana Muhammad Shahzad and assistant driver Iftikhar Hussain, Ministry of Railways announced.

    The minister tweeted, “Such incidents will not be tolerated in future,” he said while warning that strict action would be initiated against anyone found involved in such activity in the future.

    In a viral video, the assistant driver can be seen carrying yogurt back to the train which was stopped for him to get off and get it.

    The train stopped near the Kahna Kacha railway station in Lahore division according to ARY News.

  • Man dresses as Joker, injures 17 people on train

    Man dresses as Joker, injures 17 people on train

    A man, dressed in a Joker costume and flaunting a knife, stabbed at least one commuter on a Tokyo passenger train before starting a fire.

    As per reports, the Tokyo Fire Department said 17 passengers were wounded, including three seriously. Not all of them were stabbed and most of the other injuries were not serious, the fire department said.

    The criminal identified as 24-year-old Kyota Hattori, was detained on the spot after Sunday’s attack and was being investigated on suspicion of attempted murder, the Tokyo metropolitan police department said Monday.

    The attacker, riding an express train headed to Tokyo’s Shinjuku station, abruptly took out a knife and stabbed a seated passenger in his 70s.

    Police said he told the authorities that he wanted to murder people and get the death penalty. Nippon Television said he also said that he used an earlier train stabbing case as an example.

  • WATCH: PM Khan lauds cop for saving man’s life from train

    WATCH: PM Khan lauds cop for saving man’s life from train

    Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday praised the effort of a brave policeman for saving a man who fell dangerously close on the platform as a train passes through a railway station.

    PM Khan took to Twitter and wrote, “This is where duty becomes sacred. Admiration for the commitment of the young policeman to serve the people.”

    In another tweet, PM Khan announced that Constable Jamal Kalhoro will be honoured on Pakistan Day March 23 for his dedication to duty.

    In June, PM Imran heaped praise on a head constable of Islamabad Traffic Police (ITP) Qaiser Shakeel, who returned to work only two days after an on-duty injury, resulting in a fracture to his arm.

    “Such actions uplift the image of the police when one man decides to serve the people with dedication, and that is why I especially called you to the PM Office,” the premier said as he spoke to Shakeel.

    A former police official died earlier this month while trying to save a child from being crushed by a train in Lahore.

    According to details shared by Superintendent of Police (SP) City Lahore Hassan Jahangir, the former sub-inspector Siddique, who retired from service last year, lost his life at a railway track while saving a child.

    “The child was playing at a railway crossing and was about to be hit by a train when Siddique rescued him and in the entire process lost his life after being crushed by the train,” the police official said.

  • Man arrested for attacking 10 women who ‘looked happy’ to him

    Man arrested for attacking 10 women who ‘looked happy’ to him

    A man who stabbed 10 female passengers on a train in Tokyo was arrested by the Japanese police, public broadcaster NHK reported.

    As per reports, the 36-year-old man told the police that he wanted to kill women who appeared happy and chose his targets randomly. A woman in her 20s who was attacked is critical, according to the Japanese media.

    The Tokyo Fire Department said nine of the 10 injured passengers were shifted to nearby hospitals, while the tenth was able to walk away. All of the injured were conscious according to the fire department officials.

    The Japanese capital is currently hosting the Olympics, which end Sunday. The site of the stabbing spree was about 15 kilometers (9 miles) away from the main National Stadium.

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    The suspect left his knife behind when he ran away, and later walked into a convenience store and identified himself as the suspect on the news, and said he was tired of running away. The store manager called the police after seeing bloodstains on the man’s shirt.

    Another local media outlet said he told the police he developed the intent to kill women who “looked happy” and stabbed a woman who happened to be seated near him in the train. He also told the police that he chose to stage the attack inside a train because it offered the chance to kill a large number of people.

    The suspect was also carrying cooking oil and a lighter, with which he allegedly intended to set fire inside the carriage, NHK reported.

    A witness at a nearby station where the train stopped said passengers were moving out of the carriages asking for help and shouting that there was a stabbing. Another witness told NHK that he saw passengers smeared with blood come out of the train, as an announcer asked for doctors and for passengers carrying towels.

    Paramedics and police immediately arrived at the station, one of the witnesses said.

  • VIDEO: Woman escapes getting crushed by moving train

    VIDEO: Woman escapes getting crushed by moving train

    A woman in India has escaped getting run over by a train while lying straight on the track as it passed from above her.

    As per the details, the incident took place in Haryana and was captured on camera.

    The goods train had stopped awaiting signal when the woman tried to cross over to the other side. She was trapped when the train suddenly began to move. The woman then laid still till all the bogies passed over her. A few people around her asked her to remain still.

    After the train passed, she was helped by the people to stand on her feet and was then seen walking away.

  • Man gets stolen wallet back after 14 years

    Man gets stolen wallet back after 14 years

    A man, whose wallet got stolen in a local train in Mumbai in 2006, received a call after 14 years from the police saying they have found it.

    Hemant Padalkar had lost his wallet while travelling in a local train in 2006, containing Rs900 at that time. In April this year, he received a call from the Government Railway Police (GRP) updating him that his wallet was found.

    However, he could not then go to collect his wallet because of the lockdown in India due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

    After the ease of the lockdown, Padalkar, recently went to the GRP office where he was given part of the money that was in the wallet.

    “My wallet at that time contained Rs 900, including a Rs 500 note which was later demonetised (in 2016). The Vashi GRP returned Rs 300 to me. They deducted Rs 100 for stamp paperwork and said the remaining Rs 500 would be returned after exchanging the scrapped currency note with a new one,” Padalkar was quoted as saying.

    According to local media reports, a GRP official said those who stole Padalkar’s wallet were arrested sometime back.

    “We recovered Padalkar’s wallet containing Rs 900 from the accused. We handed over Rs 300 to Padalkar and the remaining Rs 500 would be returned to him after the currency note is exchanged with a new one,” he added.

  • Railways CEO differs on Rasheed’s claim, says Tezgam fire broke out due to short circuit

    Railways CEO differs on Rasheed’s claim, says Tezgam fire broke out due to short circuit

    Pakistan Railways (PR) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Muhammad Leghari has differed on Federal Minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad’s claim and said that the deadly Tezgam Express fire from last year broke due to a short circuit and the gas cylinder only exploded later on.

    As many as 73 passengers were killed, with 90 per cent of them burnt alive, and over 40 others injured when three coaches of the Rawalpindi-bound train caught fire near Liaquatpur in October 2019. The incident was called one of the most horrifying tragedies in PR’s history.

    According to the ministry, the fire was caused by a cylinder blast that occurred when passengers were preparing breakfast for themselves in a moving train, a claim heavily disputed by eye-witnesses. People had widely demanded Rasheed’s resignation while the minister himself had suspended a couple of officers on account of criminal negligence and letting passengers carry gas cylinders on the ill-fated train.

    With Rasheed making headlines as Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Gulzar Ahmed observed that the minister should have resigned after the tragedy, and said that shutting down PR would be better than keeping it running under Rasheed, PR CEO Leghari’s claims have raised eyebrows over the government’s side of the story.

    Speaking to a private media outlet, Leghari said that the fire broke out when an electric kettle in a dining car of the train, malfunctioned. “It was an illegal power connection from another coach,” he said, adding that the fire engulfed the entire coach, which led to the cylinder explosion.

  • Another TikTok star died while making video on railway track

    Another TikTok star died while making video on railway track

    TikTok, a video-sharing social networking application used to create short lip-sync, comedy, and talent videos has taken another life.

    As per reports, young Tik Toker Sonu Singh was hit by a train from the back when he was shooting a TikTok video. The information was shared by Pakistani peace activist Radesh Singh Tony, whose cousin was the victim.
    Radesh Singh Tony took to twitter to share the sad incident stating that Sonu was wearing headphones while walking on the railway track when the crash happened.

    He also appealed to the youngsters not to make such dangerous videos and also advised parents to keep their children away from such apps.

  • KP Police to train female commandos

    KP Police to train female commandos

    For the first time in history, the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government has decided to hire female police commandos that are presently being trained to fight militancy in the province.

    As per reports, around 35 female police commandos are undergoing training at the Nowshera police training center. Officials have said that KP Inspector General Police Nasir Durrani felt that female police commandos should be included in the force and decided to give them special training.

    The same training will be given to female commandos that is imparted to elite force male members in the province and will be able to confront all kinds of challenges, including the fight against militants.

    More female commandos will be trained for KP police once the first batch joins the police.

    Talking to a news outlet Musarrat Bibi — a commando under training — said, “I wanted to join the group because I wanted to tell the world that women in K-P could also obtain commando training and fight terrorism.”