Watch: Toddler Miraculously Survives After Her Father Jumps in Front of Train With Her
Commuters at a subway station in the Bronx Monday morning watched in horror as a man holding his 5-year-old daughter leapt in front of an oncoming subway train in an apparent suicide attempt. In a remarkable moment caught on video, two of the witnesses who had leapt down from the platform onto the tracks after the train came to a stop found that the little girl had miraculously survived.
“Dramatic video shows a little girl crawling out from underneath a subway train in the Bronx while commuters looked on in fear,” ABC 7 New York reported Monday along with cell phone footage of the rescue of the girl. “Her father jumped in front of the train while he held her in his arms. He did not survive, but she is going to be OK.”
The apparently suicidal man, 45, was wearing a backpack and holding his 5-year-old daughter in his arms when he jumped in front of the oncoming southbound No. 4 train at the elevated Kingsbridge Road station in the Kingsbridge Height section at around 8 a.m. Monday morning.
The action, witnesses say, appears to have been deliberate. While the man tragically died, the little girl sustained only minor injuries.
As the cell phone footage of her rescue shows, two citizen rescuers got down onto the tracks and worked to extricate the girl from underneath the train. When the rescuers pick her up and place her on the platform above, she is able to stand up and appears to be able to communicate with the stunned witnesses on the platform, who quickly encircle her, some raising their hands in relief.
CHILD SAVED: Video shows good Samaritans come to the rescue of a little girl after her father jumped in front of an oncoming train while holding onto her. Miraculously she is OK and only suffered minor injuries. https://t.co/pGUMgPJTk5 pic.twitter.com/EmRvu7oLQq
— Eyewitness News (@ABC7NY) September 23, 2019
Dramatic video shows a little girl crawling out from underneath a subway train in the Bronx while commuters looked on in fear. Her father jumped in front of the train while he held her in his arms. He did not survive, but she is going to be OK. https://t.co/b2qFqB95oI pic.twitter.com/u0G4E36BMN
— Eyewitness News (@ABC7NY) September 23, 2019
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