Rail services hit in Bengal as vagabond climbs height bar
Railway GRP and RPF rushed in, while top railway officials also reached the spot and ordered a power block, leaving several long distance and goods trains stranded.
There was much tension, anxiety and drama after a vagabond climbed a railway height bar in the suburban Patipukur station of Eastern Railway, disrupting train service, police said on Sunday. The youth went atop the height bar at around 9 p.m. on Saturday and refused to come down despite pleas from the locals.
Railway GRP and RPF rushed in, while top railway officials also reached the spot and ordered a power block, leaving several long distance and goods trains stranded.
When fire brigade personnel arrived at the spot, they also initially failed to bring the man down.
Finally, after a nine-hour drama, the fire brigade personnel brought in a tower van and used ladders to reach the vagabond.
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After unsuccessful efforts to make him see reason, two firemen used force to bring him down in the wee hours of Sunday.
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