Boy falls off Durg-Puri train, spends night alone on track inside Odisha forest

What would be your reaction if you get stranded in a forest alone? Well many of us would certainly get panicked while others may try to search for a safe location. But can you imagine what would a five-year-old do in such a scenario?

It is practically hard to guess what would be going through the mind of the child stranded alone in an isolated place. But Pritish Pragya of Berhampur overcame such a scenario after falling off a running train. The incident has been reported from Odisha’s Rairakhol.

The kid accidentally slipped from the Durg-Puri train and got stranded in a forest area throughout the night. As per initial reports, Pritish was travelling along with his father Manas Hota and others from Raipur to Bhubaneswar. Everybody was sleeping when the train crossed Rairakhol station.

Pritish somehow fell off the running train while going to the bathroom. It was near Angul station that the family realized that Pritish was missing. Then they alerted senior officials regarding the incident.

A driver of a goods train alerted RPF on Wednesday after spotting Pritish lying near the railway tracks, presuming it to be a dead body. Later, the search team found Pritish lying on the spot in a terrified manner.

The boy was then rescued by the RPF and admitted to the nearest hospital. Later, his family members reached the spot and took him to Bhubaneswar.

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