Daijiworld Media Network – Kasargod (SP)

Kasargod, Apr 21: A person, who failed to bag an employment in the Gulf, and returned by making use of amnesty given to illegal residents there, tried to commit suicide by jumping out of a train near Kumble in the taluk on Wednesday April 20.

Abdul Aziz (40) from Kuttipura village, who suffered extensive injuries in the incident, has been admitted into the general hospital here.

When Netravati Express train was moving from Mangalore to Thiruvananthapura Central station, Aziz jumped from the train near Shiriya Bridge. Noticing the incident, his co-passengers pulled the chain and stopped the train. The railway personnel went searching for the man and found him bleeding by the side of the railway track. Policemen of Kumble station admitted him to the hospital here.

Aziz had tried his hand at bagging an employment in the Gulf. As he did not possess valid visa and other documents, he was arrested there, it is learnt. Later, he was released under a scheme of amnesty announced by the government there. He was returning home from the Gulf disappointed, when he was overtaken by a feeling of frustration, and tried to commit suicide, it is said.