{"id":66223,"date":"2014-08-11T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/66223\/man-cut-in-half-by-train\/"},"modified":"2014-08-11T09:11:36","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T07:11:36","slug":"man-cut-in-half-by-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/08\/11\/man-cut-in-half-by-train\/","title":{"rendered":"Man cut in half by train"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man died in Elsburg on August 2, after a train chopped him in half.<\/p>\n

The accident took place at about 3.30pm.<\/p>

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“A member of the PSS Railway Police, in Germiston, attended the scene at the Elsburg Railway Station, in Olivier Road,” said Const Daphney Phooko, communications officer for the Germiston cluster police.<\/p>\n

“Upon his arrival he found the body of an unknown male, chopped in half by a train and lying on the railway line.”<\/p>

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Phooko added that, according to an eyewitness, the man was standing near the railway line, putting on his trousers, when the train approached.<\/p>\n

It dragged him onto the railway line and chopped him into two pieces.<\/p>\n

The man, aged about 30, has not yet been identified.<\/p>\n

An inquest docket has been opened and is being investigated by the Elsburg police.<\/p>\n

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