Authorities in Sydney said that on Sunday, a ‘heroic’ father rushed to the help of his daughters when a stroller carrying the twins, ages two and one, slid into the path of an approaching train, killing one of the infants.
According to the police, one of the little girls escaped the accident at Carlton railway station in southern Sydney by a stroke of good fortune after she landed between the rails as the stroller tumbled off the platform.
As the train barreled by in the early afternoon, the train missed the surviving infant by inches, and she was left entirely unscathed.
According to Superintendent Paul Dunstan of the New South Wales Police, the parents removed their hands from the pram for a very brief time as they stepped out of the elevator that had transported them to the station platform.
Perhaps it was a gust of wind—no one knows—but the stroller seemed to have begun rolling in the direction of the train tracks.
The train had slowed down as it approached, but it was not supposed to stop at the station. Within minutes of receiving the alarm, emergency services and police arrived and could see the stroller beneath the moving train.
The police superintendent stated that the sound of sobbing could be heard emanating from beneath the train.
The other daughter and her father, who was forty years old, were both slain.
In an effort to save his girls, the father went into “parent mode.”
The father’s courageous and noble deed cost him his life.
Family and friends in the local Indian community were there to help the 39-year-old mother, who was in a state of shock and struggling with what had happened.
The local community will be deeply affected by the disaster, according to New South Wales Premier Chris Minns.
Minns expressed hope that the family might find some comfort in the knowledge that the father’s death was the result of a heroic, instinctual act of courage.
