Video: Woman Slips While Boarding Bengal Train, Alert Cop Saves Her Life
NDTV
CCTV footage shows the train speeding up while she was caught in the gap between the train and the platform even as her relative tries to pull her from going under the train.
A railway constable's quick thinking saved the life of a woman in West Bengal's Howrah after she slipped and fell while trying to board a train on Wednesday morning. The incident was captured on a CCTV camera at the Howrah Station Old Complex station.
At 10.50 am, 40-year-old Fatima Khatoon and her relative are seen running to climb on the Howrah-Tarakeswar Local as it begins to leave Platform no 4. The two rush and try to get into the train. Fatima is seen briefly hanging from the train door. In a hurry to get inside the train, her relative then pushes her into the train door. The sudden push makes her lose balance and she slips and falls on the platform.
As the train speeds up, she is caught in the gap between the train and the platform even as her relative tries to pull her from going under the train.
