SAD:1 year old son tries to breastfeed as mother lay dead by railway track
Distressing images and footage showing an infant trying to breastfeed on his mother, oblivious to her death, is doing the rounds on social media. The woman's body was spotted by people in Madhya Pradesh's Damoh.
When the people of Madhya Pradesh's Damoh spotted the bruised body of a young woman by the railway tracks, they could see her infant son latched on to her body, trying to breastfeed on his mother, unaware of the fact that she was dead.
Many images and videos of the deeply distressing sight is being widely shared on social media platforms.
The cause of the woman's death is not yet known but the police suspect she may have fallen off a train or may have been hit by one. An eye witness said that the officials think the woman may have been conscious for some time after being hit and may have tried to breastfeed her son.
A report in the said that concussion and bleeding on the back of the woman's head led to her death but it wasn't immediate.
"She died before people found her. She opened a biscuit packet and gave some to the child. She breastfed her child to ensure he survives," a police officer said
The 1-year-old baby's cries, as he was separated from the body of his mother, shook the onlookers, reports say.
INHUMANE HUMANS AT DAMOH GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL
Officials at the government hospital in Damoh town, however, was not moved by the tragedy.
The officials refused to take in the infant saying he cannot pay the admission fee of Rs 10, about 100 Naira and reports said that the infant was kept waiting until a ward boy -- Tarun Tiwari -- paid the sum.
The woman's body has been sent for an autopsy and the baby has been shifted to a children's home.
