Mumbai
Displaying alertness and bravery, a Railway Protection Force jawan saved a woman and her toddler from being run over by a local train in Mumbai, Central Railway officials said on Wednesday.
The incident occurred around 12.04 p.m. on Tuesday when the woman carrying her one-year-old child, was attempting to board a heavily-crowded local train at Mankhurd. The train was bound for Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus. Due to overcrowding, the woman lost her balance, slipped and tumbled in the gap between the moving train and the platform, said CR chief spokesperson Shivaji Sutar. He also shared a video of the incident.
Noticing this, alert RPF constable Akshay Soye nearby jumped to grab the woman's baby and some other commuters rushed to pull out the shocked woman onto the platform.
Both the mother and child were in a state of shock but safe and sound, said Sutar while lauding the efforts of constable Soye.
This year, the CR's vigilant teams of RPF jawans have helped save around 62 persons across Maharashtra, many a times risking their own lives.
Of these, the maximum - 24 persons - lives were saved in the congested Mumbai Division alone, 14 in Nagpur Division, 12 in Pune Division, 8 in Bhusaval Division and 4 in Solapur Division, said the officials.
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