LUCKNOW: Several precious lives were saved by the presence of mind of a village woman in Etah district who fluttered her red saree to avert a major rail accident due to broken tracks near Kusba railway station, 20 km from the district headquarters, on Thursday.
While going to the fields, Omvati, 65, of Guleria village in Avagarh block of Etah district, spotted a big crack in the railway track. She thought of alerting the driver of the next train. Finding nothing suitable to raise a flag, she undraped her red saree and started fluttering it on the tracks.
