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28 March 2024

Man killed by train in apparent suicide

Man killed by train in apparent suicide. (SUPPLIED)

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An Asian expatriate in Saudi Arabia was killed when a passenger train hit him after he lay on the rails in an apparent suicide, a local daily reported Sunday.
 
The unidentified man, in his 30s, rushed to the railway line and lay on the bars when he saw the train that was travelling from the capital Riyadh to the eastern town of Dammam, Almadina Arabic language paper said.
 
“The train driver saw him and unleashed the whistle alarm but the man did not move…he used the brakes but the train was too close to the man. It only stopped after six cars of the train ran over him, killing him immediately,” it said.