A man who failed a suicide attempt threw stones at the driver, who stopped the train in the Turkish city of Mersin.

Murad Orsi, the train driver, noticed someone lying on the track while traveling from Mersin to Adana.

Orsi managed to stop the train in time, went down and immediately was attacked by the man, Turkish Posta newspaper reports.

”Why did you not let me die,” he cried, inflicting blows to the driver’s head. The latter was hospitalized with injuries.

Police is searching for the strange man, who had fled the location after the incident.