Train kills boy

QUEZON—A 14-year-old boy was killed when a passing train hit him in Gumaca, Quezon, on Wednesday, according to police Thursday.

PO2 Jason Zurbano identified the victim as Jerico Cruzat, a resident of Barangay Villa Padua, Gumaca.

Zurbano said a villager found the boy’s body lying on the railway track in Villa Padua past 4 a.m. on Wednesday.

Quoting the boy’s relatives, Zurbano said Cruzat was last seen sleeping in the balcony of of their house four meters from the railway track.

Zurbano said it wasn’t clear how Cruzat was hit by the Manila-bound train but he surmised that the boy could have stepped out of the house just as the train was passing and went too near the track.

Last week, a man was also killed when he was hit by a passing train in Pagbilao, Quezon. Delfin T. Mallari Jr., Inquirer Southern Luzon