North India Statesman
News India Live, Digital Desk: We often see children making videos on the side of the railway track on social media, but we never think that death can happen there in the next moment. What happened in Bettiah, Bihar has left everyone numb. The speed of Amrit Bharat Express and the innocent stubbornness of two children together created such an accident that the villagers were heartbroken.
Actually, these two children were standing on the railway track and shooting their new ‘reel’. They must have thought that the train was still far away or that they would end up walking off the tracks after finishing the video. But both the speed of the train and the calculations of those innocent people did not match with each other. Before they could move, Amrit Bharat Express reached them. The result was so horrifying that the eyes of the listeners became moist.
People present at the spot say that they kept shouting, but those children were so obsessed with making the video that they did not even hear the echo of the track. The scene there after the accident cannot be described. The entire family is crying and there is mourning in the village. This is not just a news, but a strong lesson for all those parents who give in to every insistence of their children and allow them to take their mobile phones to dangerous places.
Is this obsession with getting 100-200 likes and followers bigger than life? This incident of Bettiah is asking a big question to all of us that how many more of our loved ones will we lose in this show of digital world?
Railways and administration repeatedly refuse and issue warnings, but people consider the tracks as their studios. The purpose of sharing this sad news is not to scare, but to warn those parents whose children often go to such dangerous places with mobile phones in their free time. May God rest the souls of those innocent people and give their families the strength to bear this loss.
