Baby unscathed after falling onto train tracks in India
22 November, 2018
A baby in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh survived after she fell onto a railway track where she narrowly escaped being hit by a train.
In a video posted online on Tuesday (Nov 20), one-year-old Sahiba is seen lying unharmed on a railway track in Mathura after a train rolls over her.
Two men then rushed down to the track to rescue the crying child and hand her back to her panic-stricken mother.
Accordi ng to Sahiba's father, Sonu, his wife was pushed as she was alighting from the train, causing the infant to slip out of her arms, the Times of India reported.
The child then fell through the narrow gap between the platform and the carriages.
The little girl who was lying between the two tracks did not sustain any injuries and was later brought home by her parents.
"No one expected her to survive," said a bystander, according to the Times of India.
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