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Trains kill dad, son at same spot months apart

A train killed a man at just the spot where his father met the same fate eight months previously, a Malaysian newspaper said on Saturday.
/ Source: Reuters

A train killed a man at just the spot where his father met the same fate eight months previously, a Malaysian newspaper said on Saturday.

The 34-year-old man, V. Marathai, was cut in half when a moving train hit him early on Friday in the northern Malaysian town of Ipoh, the Star reported.

His father, N. Veerapan, 64, died at the same spot last November when he crawled under a train he thought was stationary.

“My father used that tract as a shortcut to his friend’s house,” the paper quoted V. Chandran, a brother of the bachelor Marathai, as saying.