KANCHANABURI: On Monday afternoon, a soldier in the last stages of laryngeal cancer was run over and killed by train after collapsing on the tracks close to the Muang district train station.
The incident, according to Muang police investigator Pol Capt Thammarat Sukhiwong, happened around 5.30 p.m. andnbsp, not long after train 259( Thon Buri – Nam Tok ) left Wang Yen railway station in tambon Wang’s city center and headed for Nam tok station.
When he first noticed the & nbsp man lying across the track in front of him with a towel covering his face, the train’s unidentified driver informed the police that it was still moving faster. The train ran over the soldier and split him in half after he applied the brakes but was unable to stop in time.
Later, the soldier was identified as Suparp( surname withheld ) 54.
Suparp & nbsp, according to his young sister, resided in a home about 200 meters from the railroad. He had to be tube-fed because he was in the final stages of throat cancer and was unable to eat generally. He had formerly attempted suicide by inserting his hand into a power plug.
Suparp left the house on a bicycle on Monday after being tube-fed, and that was the last time his household saw him dead. Later, it was discovered that he had been run over by the practice, according to the girl.
Police were looking into it. The soldier was thought to have committed suicide.