Compiled by BENJAMIN LEE, ALLISON LAI and R. ARAVINTHAN
At least 15 trains were halted or forced to return to their stations after a woman was found driving her car directly on railway tracks near a station in India’s Telangana state, as reported by Makkal Osai.
Authorities, with the quick assistance of railway workers and the public, pursued the vehicle, successfully stopping it and pulling the female driver out.
While her identity hasn’t been released, it’s understood she hails from the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.
Police have launched an investigation to determine the circumstances leading to the incident, specifically looking into whether the driver was under the influence of alcohol or experiencing any other incapacitating issues that may could have led to this dangerous act.
Railway officers managed to stop an express train travelling from Bengaluru to Hyderabad just in time, averting a major disaster on the very same track.
The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a, it denotes a separate news item.
