Train passengers and railway staff push a
train car in their effort to rescue a woman who fell and got stuck between the
car and the platform while getting off at Japan Railway Minami Urawa Station in
Saitama, near Tokyo, Monday.
TOKYO—Dozens of Japanese train passengers pushed a 32-ton train
carriage away from the platform to free a woman who had fallen into the
20-centimetre gap between the train and platform. The act of heroism was
captured by a newspaper photographer.
A public announcement that a passenger was trapped prompted about
40 people to join train officials to push the carriage, whose suspension system
allows it to lean to either side, the Yomiuri newspaper reported.
The unnamed woman in her 30s was then pulled out uninjured to
applause from onlookers at JR Minami-Urawa station, just north of Tokyo.
After just an eight-minute delay, the train went on its way.
A photo
of the rescue ran in the Yomiuri’s evening edition.
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