PUTATAN: Lena Gabin, the woman who was killed by a train here on Tuesday (Nov 19), would always walk with her son between his school and their home at Kampung Muhibbah, Petagas, a relative said.
Adnan Mohd Said, 47, who is Lena’s husband’s cousin, said they would always pass in front of his house and that he last saw them that morning.
He said her family learned of the accident through their family Whatsapp group at about 1.30pm before heading to the nearby scene.
He was able to identify her when he arrived at the scene, he said.
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“We just found out the sad news in the afternoon. Her youngest is injured and was taken to hospital,” he told reporters here on Tuesday, adding that Lena was a housewife with four children.
Meanwhile, National Consumers Advisory Council vice president I Hashima Hasbullah Hashim, who was at the location of the incident, only realised that an accident had happened when the train suddenly stopped.
She shared that she was on her way to take her child from school when she saw a boy on the tracks.
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She added that the train did not sound its horn before it hit the woman, and she and other passers-by tried to calm the injured boy down while waiting for the ambulance to arrive.
"At first, I thought there were two kids, and I asked the boy. He told me it was his mother,” she said. – Bernama
