Trains kill father, son at same spot 8 months apart

KUALA LUMPUR, July 8 (Reuters) A train has run down and killed a man at just the spot where his father met the same fate eight months previously, a Malaysian newspaper said today.

The 34-year-old man, V Marathai, was cut in half when a moving train hit him early yesterday in the northern Malaysian town of Ipoh, the Star reported.

His father, N Veerapan, 64, died at the same spot last November when he crawled under a train he thought was stationary.

''My father used that tract as a shortcut to his friend's house,'' the paper quoted V Chandran, a brother of the bachelor Marathai, as saying.

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