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AKARTA: A husband and wife were killed on Tuesday morning after they were struck by an electric train plying the Jakarta-Bogor route.

According to eyewitnesses, Rusdi Rozali, 58 and Nurhayati, 50, were crossing the railroad tracks between Kebon Pedes and Kedung Badak.

“The accident happened at 10:30 a.m. I was riding my motorcycle near the crossing. I tried to warn them by honking but I guess they didn’t hear,” Wahyu, 30, an eyewitness, said as quoted by wartakota.com.

Wahyu said that Rusdi had crossed the tracks but returned to help his wife when they were struck by the train.

“It seemed like the woman’s leg was stuck in the tracks and the man tried to help. I saw that the man managed to hold his wife’s hand when the train came,” he said.

The pair was propelled by the train into a concrete wall, Wahyu added.

Rusdi and Nurhayati, both retired civil servants, were residents of Cilebut Timur, Sukaraja in Bogor, West Java. Their bodies were taken to PMI Bogor Hospital. — JP