The moment a mother lowered her daughter onto a rail track in front of a train has been caught on CCTV. The girl survived the ordeal by scuttling into a hollow underneath the platform. The drama unfolded in Buenos Aires, Argentina, when the mother tried to avoid being caught by ticket collectors.
First she is seen lowering the child onto the tracks before clambering down herself. But then she sees the approaching train and scrambles back up onto the platform - without her daughter. The train whizzes past before coming to a stop further down the platform and the woman can be seen peering into the gap. Witnesses then raise the alarm.
Guillermo D'Abenigno, of Buenos Aires Trains, said the electrical current was turned off as soon as the pair were spotted on the line. "You couldn't hear anything. We feared the worst - that the girl was dead, torn to pieces under the train," he said.
Workers managed to crawl underneath the platform where they found the girl terrified but unharmed in a tiny gap. The mother and daughter have not been identified. It is not clear whether the woman will face charges. Mr D'Abenigno said people commonly do "all kinds of things to get out of paying the fare".
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