RAWALPINDI: An Elite Force commando was killed after being run over by a freight train in police lines on Monday.

Adnan Javaid, a 30-year-old Elite Force commando, was passing through the police lines headquarters and was crossing the railway track Monday morning when he was run over by a freight train.

According to the police, Adnan was going to the police barracks from the Elite Force Headquarters and had stopped to let the train pass. When the train had also stopped, he tried to crawl under to cross to the other side. The train suddenly started moving again and Adnan did not get a chance to get out of the way.

The commando was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead

The railway track running through police lines is not usually used for regular rail traffic and is only used by freight trains once or twice a week.

When the freight train was passing through on Monday, there was no trackman who could have alerted the train driver that someone was on the tracks.

Adnan’s funeral was offered in the police lines and was attended by hundreds of policemen including SP VVIP Security Haseeb Hussein Shah.

Adnan Javaid joined police service on April 29, 2006 as a constable and was selected for the specialised police unit of Elite Force on March 15, 2014.

Published in Dawn, October 4th, 2016