Woman Unharmed After Being Run Over By Train

An elderly woman has walked away without a scratch after being run over by a train in Portugal.

Seventy seven year-old Maria Delores Ramos slipped as she attempted to cross the railway near her home. She could not get up on her own as she suffers from arthritis in her legs, so she sat in the middle of the track to wait for someone to pass by.

But when a train approached she decided to lay down after her frantic waving failed to get the attention of the conductor.

"I started to pray and ask God for forgiveness for my sins. But when I saw that the first carriage passed over me and didn't touch me, I realized I was safe. And I survived", she said in an interview.

The train stopped a little further ahead and the conductor got out of the train and helped her crawl out from under one of the carriages.

"Other people quickly arrived and raised me off the ground and held on to me but I told them I didn't need need them to hold on to me, that I could stay up on my own," she said. "I can brag that I survived being run over by a train".

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