Baby Falls Through Toilet of Moving Train

Holy moly! This story is hard to believe. Although it's common to hear about someone being born on the wrong side of the tracks, I've never heard of anyone being born inside the tracks.

AHMADABAD, India -- A newborn baby girl who fell through a toilet in a moving train and onto the tracks, after her mother prematurely gave birth, survived nearly two hours before being found, relatives said yesterday.

The child's mother, who uses the single name Bhuri, was travelling with relatives on an overnight train when she went to the bathroom shortly before midnight Tuesday and unexpectedly gave birth, said Arjun Kumar, her brother-in-law.

"Later, she fell unconscious and the baby fell through the toilet," he continued. "Two stations later, we knocked at the door."

Bhuri opened the door, soaked in blood.

"When we asked her about what happened, she said the baby had fallen through onto the tracks," Kumar said.

The infant was on the tracks for possibly two hours before being found by guards at one of the stations the train had passed. An estimated nine weeks premature, the baby girl weighed just 3.2 pounds. Her prognosis is dicey. One doctor, Gautam Jain, doesn't think she will survive.

Curiously, although India has a high rate of infanticide regarding female offspring, authorities do not doubt the description of the incident and don't plan to investigate.