Woman ‘kills self’ jumping under moving train in Gazipur

Dead Body
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A 26-year-old woman allegedly committed suicide by jumping under a running train along with her two-year-old child at Katapool in Sreepur municipality area of Gazipur district on Wednesday, reports UNB.

However, the victim’s two-year-old girl survived luckily and was admitted to Sreepur upazila health complex with injuries.

Harunur Rashid, station master of Sreepur railway station, said the woman was crushed under Mymensingh-bound ‘Balaka Express’ train around 6:30 am when she jumped under it with the baby girl on her lap.