Watch: RPF officer saves girl from going under speeding train at Lonavala station

The presence of mind of a senior Railway Protection Force officer at Lonavala station on Sunday afternoon saved the life of a girl after she tried to alight from a train that had already picked up speed. The incident happened at 11:39am on Sunday.

Khushbunisha Ansari was with her friends in the Koyna Express that had stopped at platform number 2 of Lonavala station. A few moments after the train, at the end of the scheduled halt, started for its onward journey to Pune, the collegian tried to alight. Ansari is a student of the Vidya Prasarini Sabha's College of Arts Science and Commerce at Lonavala.

Speaking to DNA, Arun Nigam, assistant security commissioner, Central Railway, who pulled the collegian before she could slip beneath the train, said, "The train had achieved a speed of about 20 kmph and this girl was trying to get off and that too on the wrong foot (left foot first instead of right foot first in keeping with the motion of the train). She soon slipped and was about to go under when my colleagues and I pulled her to safety."

Nigam was at the Lonavala station as part of CR general manager DK Sharma's annual inspection team and Nigam was heading Sharma's security detail. "I think it was a call from God to save the girl and I responded without a second thought of the consequences," Nigam told DNA.

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