Man killed after being hit by train in Australia

A man has died after being crushed under a train carrying cane to a sugar mill in north Queensland, just days after a Sydney woman was also killed by a train. 

Emergency crews were called to Brewers Road in Sarina, south of Mackay, just after 5pm on Thursday after reports of a train hitting a pedestrian.

A spokeswoman for Wilmar Sugar and Renewables confirmed there had been a fatal incident on a rail bridge ‘involving one of our locomotives late this afternoon’.

The train came into contact with the man on Plane Creek Bridge, she told the Daily Mercury.

‘We are providing our driver with every possible support,’ the spokeswoman said.

The emergency responders were unable to save the man, and crews reportedly worked until 8pm to free his body.

‘This afternoon an unknown male at this stage has gone under a fully loaded cane train and as a result has lost his life,’ Snr Sgt Trevor Robson told reporters on Thursday night.

The police believe there are no suspicious circumstances surrounding the death.

The death in Sarina was the second train fatality in Australia this week, after a woman in Punchbowl in Sydney’s south-west was struck down on Tuesday afternoon.

The woman, aged in her 50s, had climbed down onto the track to retrieve something she had dropped and was unable to get back onto the platform. 

She was immediately transferred to an ambulance before being taken to St George Hospital, but tragically died on Wednesday morning.

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