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2020-05-08 India-Pakistan

India train crushes home-bound migrant workers sleeping on tracks

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Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-08 05:59|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 Sleeping on the tracks?

Posted by g(r)omgoru PB 2020-05-08 06:07|| 2020-05-08 06:07|| Front Page Top

#2 ..Darwin at work?

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-05-08 08:31|| 2020-05-08 08:31|| Front Page Top

#3 "Cuz if we sleep ten feet away, we'll get lost!"

Posted by Frank G 2020-05-08 08:59|| 2020-05-08 08:59|| Front Page Top

#4 Gotta be more than sleeping if the vibrations and noise didn't wake him up. I'm thinking drugs or something.

Posted by rjschwarz 2020-05-08 10:39|| 2020-05-08 10:39|| Front Page Top

#5 RJ - I've had to take Roadway Worker Safety Training annually for about 20 yrs to work in the RR Right-of-way (Both BNSF/Coaster and local trolley). It's a myth that you will always hear a train in time if it's traveling at high speed. Likewise the vibration.

Posted by Frank G 2020-05-08 10:49|| 2020-05-08 10:49|| Front Page Top

#6 They were trying to avoid the police on the roads.

Posted by John Frum 2020-05-08 12:29|| 2020-05-08 12:29|| Front Page Top

#7 Corona suicides

Posted by Skidmark 2020-05-08 18:51|| 2020-05-08 18:51|| Front Page Top

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