Robbery in a Running Train of 250 words
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A Robbery in a Running Train
Robberies or cries are very frequent today. I had a bitter experience of the same.
Once I was going by Frontier Mail form Delhi to Amritsar. It was a cold night. The train was running at full speed. The trees, houses, poles were wheeling back. The stations were passing one after another. The train halted at only selected stations. Some persons were dozing some others were reading novels, magazines and newspapers; some of them were playing cards, some were discussing important political matters and burning questions of the day and some of them were gossiping and chatting. The train was now heading for an important station of Shahabad Markanda.
All of a sudden I saw some person quietly entering the compartment. They had rifles and sharp knives in their hands and had covered their faces with cloth. One of the dacoits ordered the passengers to raise their hands up or they would be shot dead. The faces of all passengers turned pale and without uttering word, raised their hands. The dacoits took whatever they could and snatched whoever resisted. The women and children were crying but the dacoits turned a deaf ear to their cries and shrieks. One of the passengers resisted to give his valuables but soon they stabbed him to death. In the end, they pulled the chain and ran away in the jungle in the cover of darkness when the train stopped.
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Of late, travelling even by train has become unsafe. We daily hear gruesome tales of murder and robbery in running trains.
Last month, two ladies of a very well-to-do and respectable family were travelling by the Frontier Mail. They were travelling first class. They were not accompanied by any male member. The train reached the Jullundur railway station at 8 p.m. The ladies had tea and then lay down to take rest.
As the train moved, two dacoits with masks on their faces boarded the footboard of their compartment. They were armed with pistols and other deadly weapons. When the train gathered speed, they broke the window pane and forced their way into the compartment.
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The ladies were frightened to death. They tried to raise a hue and cry. The dacoits handled them roughly, levelled their pistols at them and showed them their knives. The poor helpless ladies were silenced. They searched them and their suitcases. They removed whatever cash and jewellery they could lay their hands on.
But this was not all. Now they turned to finish the two ladies. All their entreaties to spare their lives fell on deaf ears. They were attacked with sharp knives. They were strangled to death.
The dacoits then pulled the alarm chain. As the train slowed down, they jumped out of it and made good their escape under cover of darkness.
The police rushed to the ladies compartment. Great was their horror to see the two ladies lying brutally murdered in a pool of blood. The train was detained. A vigorous search was made for the dacoits but no clue of the dacoits was found. What a tragedy!