Lucknow, May 6: A woman from Lucknow gave birth to twins on a train that was traveling from Mumbai to Gonda. Zubin Mehta went into labour in the general compartment (S-10) of the Kushinagar Express and gave birth to her twins between Unnao and Lucknow. It was the second time in four years that she had delivered twins in a train. “I am very thankful to Allah and my fellow passengers who helped me a lot,” Habibullah, her husband, said, adding that he and Zubin already have four-year-old twins, a boy and a girl. Cradling the two babies, Habibullah said he was feeling on “top of the world”, and shared the amusement of his co-passengers that his wife had delivered twins twice in a moving train. “Well, indeed this is some sort of a record, but what can I say,” he said, sounding a bit surprised himself.
“I can call this a rare blessing of the almighty that my kids came into this world in such a manner,” he added. As the train chugged ahead, alarmed fellow passengers cleared the area around berth 63 and made room for other women passengers to attend to the woman. Some passengers called railway staff and alerted a medical team stationed at Lucknow about the developments on the train.
A medical team was kept on standby mode. Both babies were handed over to a waiting medical team in Lucknow, and are safe and healthy at the Queen Mary Hospital here. Habibullah, the proud father of the twins, said they were going to their village Kundera in Gonda when his wife went into labour in Kanpur. But before he could decide on de-boarding the train, the train moved, and he was left with no option, but to wait till the train reached Lucknow. (ANI)