The boy, while getting down from a Virar-bound local train, slipped and fell into the gap between the platform and the tracks, the Goverment Railway Police said in a release
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An alert Railway Police constable saved the life of a ten-year-old boy who fell on the tracks while alighting from a suburban train at Vasai Road station, the GRP said on Wednesday.
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The incident took place at around 11.20 am on Tuesday, they said.
The boy, while getting down from a Virar-bound local train, slipped and fell into the gap between the platform and the tracks, the Goverment Railway Police said in a release.
As the train stopped, constable AS Thanabeer, who was on duty at the platform, rushed in and pulled out the boy and took him to a nearby hospital, the release said.
The swift action by the policeman saved the life of the boy, who was admitted to the hospital for treatment, it said.
A video of the constable carrying the boy in his arms to the hospital has gone viral on social media.
वसई रेल्वे स्थानकात अल्पवयीन मुलगा लोकल गाडी मधून उतरत असताना तोल जाऊन गाडी खाली पडल्याने त्यास कर्तव्यावर असलेल्या पोलीस अंमलदार यांनी क्षणाचाही वेळ न घालवता प्रवाश्यांच्या मदतीने तात्काळ हॉस्पिटल मध्ये दाखल केले व अल्पवयीन मुलाचे प्राण वाचविले.#AGRPCommitment #GRPMumbai(1/2) pic.twitter.com/AK4Xw30KFr
— GRP Mumbai (@grpmumbai) July 21, 2021
Vasai Road is a distant suburb of Mumbai and falls on the suburban section of the Western Railway.
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