A survivor of Egypt’s biggest train disaster who escaped with light injuries after jumping off one of the rear carriages died on his return journey Thursday by falling under another train, security sources said.

Abdel-Rahim Qenawi, a 22-year-old laborer from the town of el-Maragha about 360 km (225 miles) south of Cairo, escaped from a fire eight days ago which killed about 360 people when it swept through seven carriages of a crowded passenger train.

After spending the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha with his family over the past week, he was waiting at Maragha train station to return to Cairo when he slipped under a passing train and was killed, the sources said.

Leaving aside for a second the statistical improbability of actually slipping under a passing train, this is just plain eerie. Maybe there’s something to this whole “fate” thing after all, ya’ think…?

[from Reuters]

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