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The 10 year old who saved the lives of 850 passengers
November 17, 2015

On March 15, the Harihara-Chitradurga passenger train was passing through Avaregere village in Davangere district, Karnataka. The locomotive driver saw a young boy running towards the train on the track waving a red cloth vigorously. The driver applied the brakes and stopped the train. The boy, Siddesh Manjunath, 10, had just saved the lives of about 850 passengers on that train. Read A Ganesh Nadar's story to find out why.
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