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other countries, say Japan
Japanese passengers move 32-tonne
train to rescue trapped woman
Railway staff and customers join forces to push carriage so that woman could
be freed from gap between platform and tracks
Train passengers and railway staff push a train car to rescue a trapped woman
at Minami Urawa station. Photograph: Norihiro Shigeta/AP
Dozens of Japanese commuters pushed a 32-tonne train carriage away from
the platform to free a woman who had fallen into the 20cm (8in) gap between it
and the platform.
The act of collective 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
.
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