Elderly citizen run over by train

Elderly citizen run over by train

YOGYAKARTA: Senja Utama executive train, which left Jakarta on Friday evening bound for Yogyakarta, arrived four hours late at its destination after being withheld at the village of Kemiri in Kulonprogo, Central Java on Saturday evening after it ran over an elderly man.

Purnomo, spokesman for state-owned railway company PT KAI, confirmed the accident on Saturday and said the victim was 78- year-old Kromodimejo.

"The accident was inevitable because the train was not able to stop in time to avoid the victim," he said, citing the victim was hit while crossing the railway in his village. --Antara