A man died in Elsburg on August 2, after a train chopped him in half.
The accident took place at about 3.30pm.
“A member of the PSS Railway Police, in Germiston, attended the scene at the Elsburg Railway Station, in Olivier Road,” said Const Daphney Phooko, communications officer for the Germiston cluster police.
“Upon his arrival he found the body of an unknown male, chopped in half by a train and lying on the railway line.”
Phooko added that, according to an eyewitness, the man was standing near the railway line, putting on his trousers, when the train approached.
It dragged him onto the railway line and chopped him into two pieces.
The man, aged about 30, has not yet been identified.
An inquest docket has been opened and is being investigated by the Elsburg police.
