Daijiworld Media Network - Kundapur (SP)

Kundapur, May 2: An aged deaf and dumb man died after a train crushed him on the railway tracks near Kanyana Bandady in the taluk on Wednesday May 1.

Narayana Shetty (75), resident of Sahadevi House at Bandady was going to the milk producers cooperative society located a little distance away to deliver milk when this accident happened. Shetty, a farmer by profession, is survived by his wife.

A case was registered in this respect in the rural police station here.

Social media hype: Messages which were widely forwarded by WhatsApp social media relating to this incident claimed that a wild boar had also died near the spot where Shetty had died, and the people were prompt in taking away the wild boar's body for meat, while utterly neglecting the mortal remains of the old man lying on the tracks. Kandlur police sub-inspector, Sridhar Nayak, said that he is not sure about the authenticity of the said information. He said that when he and other personnel of the station went to the spot, there were many people, who perhaps were waiting for the police to come and remove Shetty's mortal remains.

Deputy forest conservator of the forest range here, Prabhakar Kulal, said that the staff of his department did not find signs of any wild boar having died at the said spot. He said that his department is pooling more information relating to this incident.