19-yr-old comes under 6 bogies of train, survives

Lying on his hospital bed 19yearold Navi Mumbaikar Kamlesh Shinde is busy counting his lucky stars The teenager had a very literal lsquoclose brushrsquo with death on Friday morning when six bogies of a local train passed over him at Juinagar station but left his bones miraculously intact Only his left arm has lost some skin which will be replaced in a grafting procedure Narrow escape Kamlesh Shinde at DY Patil hospital in Nerul Kamlesh lost his balance and fell on the tracks at Juinagar railway station as he craned his neck to see if he could glimpse an approaching train PicPradeep Dhivar On the morning of May 17 Kamlesh a secondyear Commerce student at a college in Sanpada was waiting to board a train to CST from Juinagar railway station As he craned his neck to see if he could glimpse an approaching train he lost his balance and fell on the railway tracks ldquoFalling on the tracks I saw a train heading in my direction and immediately started running in the opposite direction But my shoe got stuck in the tracks and I realised to my alarm that I couldnrsquot move I immediately lay down on the railway tracks with my hands shielding my head Soon I felt the train bogies passing over me After about six bogies had passed the train halted to let passengers inrdquo recounted Kamlesh on a bed at DY Patil hospital in Nerul He added ldquoOnce the train halted I tried to squeeze myself out through the gap between the train and the platform which looked wide enough I was conscious all through the incident but when I scrambled onto the platform and saw my left arm bleeding heavily I passed out The next thing I remember I was on this hospital bedrdquo BIG FALL On Friday morning Kamlesh was waiting for a train when he lost his balance and fell on the tracks He tried to run but his shoe got stuck rendering him immobile IllustrationAmit Bandre Close shave Not being able to run from the train Kamlesh lay flat on the tracks and felt six of its bogies pass over him When the local finally halted he squeezed out through the gap between the train and the platform Helping hand Kamlesh finally surfaced on the platform and a bystander dragged him up Kamlesh was brought to the medical institute by fellow commuters Doctors were surprised that the youngster who had met with such a grave accident had escaped without any broken bones Dr Ananta Kulkarni the treating plastic surgeon at the hospital said ldquoWe are suspecting that some part of the local train hit his left arm because of which there are three wounds in that area In such cases the victim usually gets grossly injured sometimes requiring amputationu00a0 One factor that worked in Kamleshrsquos favour is that he is thin Had it been an obese person the chances of injury would have been higher as he lay flat on the tracks Kamlesh definitely had a miraculous escaperdquo However Kamlesh has lost a substantial amount of skin because of which he will have to undergo a skin grafting operation ldquoIt will be at least another two months before the boy can return to his daily routine considering that his muscles have also been slightly damagedrdquo added Kulkarni The victimrsquos father Prakash Shinde a daily wage earner panicked when he heard news of the accident ldquoWhen I heard that my son had met with a train accident I was frightened However luck seems to have favoured him and that is why he survived such an accident without any major injuries I am just hoping that he recovers soon so that he is able to join college once it reopensrdquo