A MANENBERG mom has been left shattered after her 7-year-old son was killed by a train on Tuesday morning while playing with friends on the railway tracks.
Nkosinathi Biyana, a Grade 1 learner at Luzuko Primary School, left his Tambo Village home with friends and his mangled body was later found in Area Central between Nyanga and Heideveld.
His heartbroken mother Hazel Biyana said Nkosinathi was her baby as she and the boy’s 16-year-old-sibling mourn his tragic passing.
The mother explains: “I was at home and Nkosinathi was playing with his friends in the yard. I did not know that
they left to go play outside. I was not aware they left and I also did not go outside to check because they would also play in the street.
“The…