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Nine-year-old’s vigilance saves a life
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Little heroine: Senuki points to the spot where she spotted the man and right with her little brother
Pix and text by Palitha Ariyawansa
A nine-year-old girl’s quick thinking averted tragedy at the Bandarawela railway station when she spotted a man lying on the track beneath the stationed Calypso train, moments before its departure.
Senuki Hiyara, a Grade 5 student of Archimedes International School, was playing with her younger brother when she looked under the carriages and saw a man with his neck on the rails. She immediately ran to the station master and raised the alarm.
Railway officials rushed to the spot and pulled the 42-year-old man to safety. “If another 10 minutes had passed, he would have been crushed,” said station master Nalin Weranga, praising the girl’s action. Locomotive driver P. S. De Seram also said that the credit for saving the man’s life belonged entirely to the child.
The individual, later handed over to the police, was identified as a local resident suffering from family-related distress. According to officials, no one else had noticed him lying on the far side of the train until the girl raised the alarm.
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