A kiss that cost a life
Published: 03 July, 2008, 14:54
A twenty-seven-year-old girl who was kissing her boyfriend on railway lines has died after being hit by a passenger train going from the southern resort of Anapa to Siberia’s Krasnoyarsk. Some witnesses say she noticed t
The tragedy happened near on a platform in the city of Novosibirsk, police informed. Absorbed in their passion, the couple didn’t notice anything around them as they were kissing on the rails. The driver was signaling, a railway station worker was blowing a whistle and a woman on the platform said she was crying out to them, but they didn’t hear because a freight train was passing by on the neighbouring track.
If the witnesses’ statements are true, the girl saved the boy’s life for the price of her own one.
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