The train was on a regular run toward the Peruvian Andes when it struck 28-year-old Juan Carlos Tello. Photo / AFP
An apparently drunken man somehow survived after being struck on Saturday by a cargo train while sleeping along train tracks in [Peru](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/topic/peru/), local authorities said.
“The train knocked him over but through some miracle did not kill him,” General Javier Avalos, a security official for the town of Ate in Lima province, told _AFP_.
“He apparently was in a state of intoxication, fell asleep along the train tracks and did not feel the train coming,” Avalos said.
The train was on a regular run toward the Peruvian Andes when it struck 28-year-old Juan Carlos Tello, he said, adding it stopped quickly.
Surveillance footage released by the city shows the locomotive dragging the young man for several metres.