Showing its humanitarian face, the Railways stopped a long-distance train at a station to help a pregnant passenger who suddenly went into labour.
Directed by the control room, the speeding Ajmer-Kishanganj Garib Nawaz Express made an unscheduled halt late on Wednesday night at Dighwara station under Sonepur division of East Central Railway.
A doctor and a nurse waiting at the platform quickly took the woman to a primary health centre where she delivered a baby girl.
“The decision to stop the train at Dighwara was taken on humanitarian ground,” Senior divisional commercial manager (DCM), Sonepur, BNP Verma told PTI over phone on Friday.