VIJAYAWADA: A man lost both his legs during a suicide attempt on the railway tracks near Krishna Canal railway station in Guntur district on Monday evening. The youth, identified as Prithvi from Nulakapeta under Tadepalli mandal of the district, was lying on the tracks in a bid to end his life.
By the time the loco pilots of Mumbai-Kakinada Lokmanya Tilak express spotted him, the train was barely 100 metres away. They repeatedly sounded the horn and applied the emergency brakes, but failed to stop the train in time, and both his legs were dismembered before the train could come to a halt.
The loco pilots — Hanumatha Rao and Raghuramraju — immediately got down and pulled out a profusely bleeding Prithvi from underneath the bogie. When they saw his dismembered feet, they collected the legs in a polythene bag, lifted him to a bogie and rushed the train to Vijayawada station where RPF personnel and medical staff were on standby.
Prithvi was taken to Vijayawada government general hospital where doctors tried to reattach the legs. The procedure failed as he had suffered multiple fractures. He is stated to be out of danger.
