Khammam, May 02: In a shocking incident, a woman tried to kill her granddaughter by placing on railway tracks at Peddapalli in Khammam district on Monday.
According to Sub-Inspector Prashanth Reddy, Ijjagiri Lakshmi (45), a resident of Ratnapur village in Khammam, used to tend to her granddaughter Sandhya Rani (10 months), since the past four months after her daughter Shoba Rani (25) committed suicide.
The woman was taking the infant to hospital when she became increasingly depressed after her daughter’s death. In a moment of depression and self-pity, placed the daughter on the railway tracks, the police officer said. She then went away from the spot.
However, the driver of a goods train which was plying on the track at a very slow speed saw the girl and managed to stop the train.
Police have arrested Lakshmi.
——–INN