A boy in India’s eastern Bihar state, age 12 or 13, was thrown from a train because he did not have enough money to bribe a guard, CNN reports. “Mohammed Salahuddin’s leg was removed below the knee after it was badly damaged after the fall” the US news service says, because the vendor did not have 10 rupees. The guard denies the corruption charges but admits to throwing the boy from the train. Salon
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News story, GenevaLunch, 13 September 2009.
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Tags: amputated, India, leg, train, vendor
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