Sometimes, it is that just a little presence of mind, that costs a life. A few days back, an elephant died, while it was crossing a railway track and the train hit all of a sudden.
The incident that took place in West Bengal has gone viral all over the internet and the netizens, criticized the railways for being careless. The elephant struggled for hours after the train hit and finally lost its life. But now, the railways gained back the love, through a similar incident.
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The official Twitter handle of Alipurduar Division, N. F. Railway tweeted a video, in which an elephant was seen crossing the railway track, while that was supposed to pass by the track was stopped by the driver’s presence of mind.
The video was shot by someone from the train itself and is now going viral on all the leading social media handles. The netizens are lauding the driver and are asking to reward him with something so that it encourages other drivers to follow the same.
Today morning at 8.30 hrs, #AlertCrew of 55726 Dn Sri Uttam Barua & D.D.Kumar suddenly noticed that a Wild Elephant was walking along the track at Km 71/7 betn NKB- CLD & stopped train immediately with Emergency brake. @RailNf @wti_org_india @RailMinIndia pic.twitter.com/EkSFEW9KGe
— DRM APDJ (@drm_apdj) October 14, 2019