Brave Mumbai student saves construction labourer from death
Mumbai: In an exemplary show of courage on Sunday, a 24-year-old IT student Morris Fernandes saved the life of a man who fell into the gap between the platform and the footboard of a Churchgate-bound
Mumbai: In an exemplary show of courage on Sunday, a 24-year-old IT student Morris Fernandes saved the life of a man who fell into the gap between the platform and the footboard of a Churchgate-bound local train at Vasai Road station.
The victim Debashis Sethi hails from Cuttack, Odisha and works as a construction labourer in Mumbai.
He fell into the gap while boarding the train. His left leg was crushed under the train, as were a few toes of his right leg too.
Fernandes, who is an IT student at G G College,Vasai saw Sethi fall into the gap.
He rushed to the railway authorities and requested them to arrange a stretcher and got Sethi admitted to a private orthopaedic hospital in Vasai.
Fernandes told a local daily, he had to wait a full 20 minutes for a stretcher at the railway station, as he was told there was shortage of porters who lift victims of train accidents since it was a Sunday.
Due to delay in treatment Sethi suffered severe loss of blood, and his foot could in no way be reattached.
The victim Debashis Sethi hails from Cuttack, Odisha and works as a construction labourer in Mumbai.
He fell into the gap while boarding the train. His left leg was crushed under the train, as were a few toes of his right leg too.
Fernandes, who is an IT student at G G College,Vasai saw Sethi fall into the gap.
He rushed to the railway authorities and requested them to arrange a stretcher and got Sethi admitted to a private orthopaedic hospital in Vasai.
Fernandes told a local daily, he had to wait a full 20 minutes for a stretcher at the railway station, as he was told there was shortage of porters who lift victims of train accidents since it was a Sunday.
Due to delay in treatment Sethi suffered severe loss of blood, and his foot could in no way be reattached.