Woman falls from moving train while fending off mobile phone snatcher
She held on to the phone, and in the ensuing struggle lost her balance and fell from the moving train. Commuters on the platform rushed to her rescue.Prabha sustained serious head and facial injuries. Members of the public caught the alleged snatcher, assaulted him, and handed him over to the Railway Protection Force personnel.The Government Railway Police, Tambaram, arrested the suspect, identified as Ajay Nayak, 30, of Assam.
- ▪She held on to the phone, and in the ensuing struggle lost her balance and fell from the moving train.
- ▪Commuters on the platform rushed to her rescue.Prabha sustained serious head and facial injuries.
- ▪Members of the public caught the alleged snatcher, assaulted him, and handed him over to the Railway Protection Force personnel.The Government Railway Police, Tambaram, arrested the suspect, identified as Ajay Nayak, 30, of Assam.
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A 25-year-old woman of Forensic Science Department of the Chennai Police was injured after falling from a moving suburban train while trying to prevent a man from snatching her mobile phone near Tambaram Sanatorium railway station on Sunday.The victim, Aadolin Prabha, a native of Tenkasi district, works with the Forensic Science Department in Mylapore, and stays at a working women’s hostel in the Lighthouse area.At around 8 p.m., as the train began moving from the Tambaram Sanatorium railway station, a man standing on the platform allegedly snatched the phone from her hand. She held on to the phone, and in the ensuing struggle lost her balance and fell from the moving train. Commuters on the platform rushed to her rescue.Prabha sustained serious head and facial injuries.
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