A police constable from Mumbai jumped into action to save a man who slipped though attempting to board a moving train. CCTV footage from the railway station shows Computer Yogesh Hiremath pulling the man to security right after he lost his balance and just about fell into the platform gap.
The incident took location at at Dahisar Railway Station on the Western line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network.
In the video, the unnamed man was noticed arriving at the platform right after the train had currently begun moving. As he attempted to enter the boarding train, he slipped and lost his balance. The presence of the rapid-pondering Mr Hiremath – who sprung into action to pull him out – prevented him from having severely injured.
The alert officer managed to pull him out ahead of something untoward occurred, Mumbai Police wrote on Twitter though sharing hair-raising footage of the close shave.
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Computer Yogesh Hiremath was at Dahisar Railway Station when a young man just about fell in the platform gap though attempting to board a moving train.
The alert officer managed to pull him out ahead of something untoward occurred.#MumbaiFirstpic.twitter.com/1qFToEmceE
— Mumbai Police (@MumbaiPolice) January 4, 2021
The video has been viewed thousands of instances on the microblogging platform, exactly where quite a few praised the cop.
This is the second such rescue by Mumbai Police this year. On January 1, a Mumbai Police constable a saved the life of a 60-year-old man who got stuck at a railway track. Footage of the incident, which also took location at Dahisar Railway Station, had gone viral on social media.
The video shows the cop assisting the man up from the railway tracks in the nick of time.
#WATCH | Maharashtra: A constable of Mumbai Police helped a 60-year-old man, who got stuck at a railway track, save his life at Dahisar railway station in Mumbai yesterday. pic.twitter.com/lqzJYf09Cj
– ANI (@ANI) January 2, 2021
According to a 2019 report, about 80 lakh passengers travel on Mumbai’s suburban trains everyday and, on an typical, eight to nine commuters die daily due to numerous mishaps.