NAKHON SI THAMMARAT: A female school teacher lost one of her legs saving her three-year-old daughter from being hit by an oncoming train at Thung Song railway station late on Saturday night.
Police said the incident occurred at about 11pm when the woman, Nipaporn Jirapan, 41, a teacher at Thessaban Tha Phae School in Thung Song district, was at the railway station with her daughter. The two were seeing a relative off on the Trang - Bangkok train, which was parked on track No 2.
As a Yala-Bangkok sprinter train was approaching Thung Song railway station on track No 1, her daughter began to run along the edge of the raised platform between the two tracks.
Seeing her daughter in imminent danger of falling onto the track, Mrs Nipaporn ran after her. While pulling her daughter to safety, the mother herself slipped and fell onto the track. Her leg became trapped under one of the rails and was crushed by the Yala-Bangkok train.
The seriously injured woman, her leg badly mutilated, was rushed to hospital.
