Mother Dies After Jumping Off Speeding Train Holding Her 7-Year-Old Son

A 30-year-old woman had a tragic death after she jumped off a speeding train with her young son in the early hours on Sunday, Oct.10. The 7-year-old boy survived the incident and is currently undergoing treatment at a hospital, authorities said.

The deceased, Banu More, a resident of Mumbai, India, was found dead on the tracks near Vidyavihar by a railway police officer.

According to the police, the woman and her son boarded a CSMT bound (Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus) local train from Kalwa station on Saturday night.

Around 12.25 a.m. when the train was near Vidyavihar, the woman jumped off the moving train, dragging her son along, police said.

A GRP (Government Railway Police) officer who was doing routine rounds found the boy lying near the tracks. The boy was breathing but heavily bleeding and unresponsive when the officer found him, police said.

The officer also located the seriously injured mother but she had succumbed to her injuries when he found her.

The officer picked up the boy in his arms and ran across the foot overbridge to rush him to Rajawadi Hospital.

Due to the severity of his injuries, the child was later transferred to Sion Hospital, where he is currently recovering.

The police informed the boy’s father who later told them that he and his wife had marital issues.

The investigators did not recover a suicide note from the scene or from the deceased woman’s body. The incident is being investigated, authorities said.

In another unrelated incident, a Russian mother with "acute natal depression" leaped to her death with her two young children from a 19th-floor apartment in Moscow.

34-year-old Olga Zharkova, the wife of a Russian military officer, jumped off the high-rise building holding her two sons, aged three, and one month, in her arms, authorities said. They were pronounced dead at the scene.

According to the investigators, the mother-of-two was suffering from acute postnatal depression. The police found a disturbing note written by Olga that said she did not want to leave her children in this "hard, gloomy world".

"She complained to her acquaintances that she had postnatal depression," a law enforcement source told Komsomolskaya Pravda.

"She felt lonely and tired."

The Russian Investigative Committee has opened a probe into the deaths.