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Teen falls off coach, motorman halts train to save him
Updated On: 30 July, 2013 12:54 AM IST | | Neha LM Tripathi and Iram Siddique
Alert motorman hit the brakes after he saw the boy fall off an adjacent train due to the rush hour crowds at Tilak Nagar station; victim broke his leg but survived the accident
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On an average, 10 passengers are killed on city’s suburban railway network every day. Nineteen-year-old Abu Fahad Shaikh was lucky not to contribute to the statistic last morning after being squeezed out of a crowded coach in a moving train and falling down on the tracks.

Mortal commute: Other than a fractured leg, Shaikh has multiple injuries all over his body; his family says he risks his life every day in the overcrowded Harbour line trains
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