Watch: Mumbai woman loses balance while boarding train and then this happened

  • | Friday | 23rd February, 2018

But a quick response by the RPF personnel saved a boy at Mumbai's Naigaon station from a falling under moving a train. As the train approached, the 50-year-old woman slipped and fell while she was trying to board the train at the Mumbai Central Railway Station. Before he could reach to save the boy from coming under the train, the RPF personnel pulls the boy up to safety. A woman passenger was saved by a Railway Protection Force (RPF) officer after she slipped as she was trying to board a train in Mumbai. Mumbai suburban railway, considered the lifeline of India's financial capital, is also a 'death trap' for many commuters.

A woman passenger was saved by a Railway Protection Force (RPF) officer after she slipped as she was trying to board a train in Mumbai. As the train approached, the 50-year-old woman slipped and fell while she was trying to board the train at the Mumbai Central Railway Station. However, a RPF officer was quick to react and managed to pull her out before she could be dragged under the train. The CCTV footage was posted by news aganecy ANI on Twitter. #WATCH Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel, along with some other people, saved a woman passenger's life by rescuing her from falling, while she was boarding a train at #Mumbai Central Railway Station's platform number 4 (21.02.18) pic.twitter.com/Kc3lCJ22nI — ANI (@ANI) February 22, 2018 In a separate incident, a RPF jawan saved a man who could have been killed while boarding a train in Mumbai. But a quick response by the RPF personnel saved a boy at Mumbai's Naigaon station from a falling under moving a train. The CCTV footage, recorded on February 2, shows an RPF personnel running towards the moving train. A man also gets down from the train and runs towards the opposite direction. Before he could reach to save the boy from coming under the train, the RPF personnel pulls the boy up to safety. Mumbai suburban railway, considered the lifeline of India's financial capital, is also a 'death trap' for many commuters. According to data provided by the Government Railway Police (GRP), over 3,000 people lost their lives in train accidents in the city in 2017, at least 8 people per day. The suburban railway or the local train is increasingly becoming a 'death trap' for commuters as over 3,014 commuters lost their lives in train accidents in the city last year, according to data provided by the GRP in response to an RTI query. A city-based activist, Samir Jhaveri, had filed the RTI query. "Of the total number of deaths reported in 2017 across all the suburban stations (on all three lines), 1,651 persons (1,467 men and 184 women) lost their lives while crossing tracks. Besides, 654 passengers, including 58 women, died after falling from running trains," the reply said. "There are about nine deaths everyday and efforts are being made to avoid the fatalities. We are trying to educate people. We have put up stickers at several places and organise various awareness campaigns to sensitise commuters," the ACP said. The data showed that with 1,534 deaths, the central line, which has some of the busiest stations like Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT), Dadar and Byculla, claimed the maximum number of lives. CSMT alone accounted for 62 deaths during the period (2017), it said. (With PTI inputs)

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