One evening last June, as Esther Iradukunda set the table for dinner at her home in Buffalo, she heard a high-pitched cry through the kitchen window.
She rushed outside and followed the screams to the train tracks that ran about 100 feet away from her house.
She found her young brother Aron lying on the tracks, run over when he chased a ball between the cars of a train that had suddenly begun to move.
Ms. Iradukunda desperately pulled her brother clear just as the train began moving again, rolling slowly toward the CSX train yards about a quarter-mile away.
No one from the railroad had heard the boy’s screams or noticed him trapped on the tracks.
Persons:
Esther Iradukunda, Aron, Iradukunda
Organizations:
CSX
Locations:
Buffalo