In the world where COVID-19 is still around infecting people, not all people are happy when they are going to be vaccinated. And among those people who have been vaccinated, they too may feel that they are still not happy.
But not Alhaj Hossain Mandal.
The 17-year-old boy from Kaluakhali District, Rajbari, Dhaka, Bangladesh, and his friends were filming a TikTok video.
They were happy and joyful because they were on their way home after being vaccinated for COVID-19 at Pangsha Upazila Health Complex.
They were walking next to a train track, and Mandal was walking very near the right-hand-side part of the track.
Mandal walked with confidence, even with his back facing the train.
And even after hearing the sound of the train, he still insisted on standing in place, simply because he was not standing on the rails, thinking that the distance was safe.
But he was wrong, extremely wrong.
Trains' width are wider than their tracks.
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Mandal seemed to be too careless.
The first that realized this was his friends.
When they shouted, they were too late.
Because the others' saw the train coming, their had time to step further back closer to the bushes.
But Mandal who didn't see it coming, couldn't calculate the width nor the speed of the train.
Mandal responded to his friends by first turning his face around. But by the time he did that, it was way too late.
His reflexes couldn't save him when the train hit him at full speed.
It was an instant death for the unfortunate boy.
According to reports, Mandal died at 10AM local time.
When Mandal was hit and 'flew', his friends were so frightened that they all fled the scene.
It was not until a while later when the train left, that some passerby who saw Mandal's deceased body dragged the body to safety, and also called the police.
It was only after the police arrived, that the body was taken to Rajbari Sadar Hospital for an autopsy, Mandal's family was contacted, and the friends called for questioning.
After an investigation, Masud Alam, an officer-in-charge of Rajbari railway said that on the day of the incident, the boys had just been vaccinated, and that they were celebrating on their way home by filming a video to be uploaded to TikTok.
The incident happened suddenly and unexpectedly.
According to the police, the incident was a pure accident.
Nazmul Haque, Kaluakhali railway station master also confirmed the matter.
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