The incident took place at Kanpur Central Railway Station.
In a video going viral on social media, a woman and her child slipped and fell while trying to get off a moving train. The incident took place on Saturday at Kanpur Central Railway Station. However, both of them were saved by the timely action of a police officer present on the stage.
The incident was captured in the CCTV installed there and shared on Instagram by the Uttar Pradesh Police. In the clip, a woman is seen throwing a bag on the platform and later trying to get out of the moving train with a child. As soon as she steps on the platform, she loses her balance, stumbles and falls down from the train along with the child. Within seconds a police office is seen approaching the woman. He pulls the mother-son duo towards the stage and saves their lives.
Watch the video below:
He wrote in the caption, “Train(ed) to rescue- Saluting the heroic act of HC Shailendra of #UPGRP, who saved a woman from falling off the railway track at Kanpur Central Railway Station with incredible agility. Boarding or deboarding a moving train possible.” can be fatal and should be avoided at all costs.”
Since being shared, the short clip has garnered over 20,000 views and two thousand likes.
One user wrote, “Salute to the youth.”
Another user said, ‘Good work.’
A third person commented, “Salute to you @uppolice.”
Read also: Railway shared the video and told what has changed in the cleanliness of the train over the years.
Unfortunately, this is not the first time such an incident has happened. Though the Indian Railways is warning people against boarding or deboarding a moving train, some of them ignore the advice and pay the price.
A few months back, a major accident was narrowly averted at Prayagraj station when an alert Government Railway Police constable saved a man’s life. The person sitting at the gate of the coach fell from the moving train.
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