Chinese boy, 3, has lucky escape after falling onto high-speed train line
- Youngster was posing for photographs with his mother when he stumbled into the gap between bullet train and platform
A three-year-old boy had a narrow escape on Sunday after falling onto the track at a railway station in central China.
The youngster was posing in front of a stationary bullet train at Wuchang Railway Station in Wuhan, capital of Hubei province, while his mother was taking photographs and filming him as a souvenir of their ride home for the Lunar New Year holiday, news portal Thepaper.cn reported.
But when she asked him to take a step backwards, the child lost his footing and tumbled into the gap between the platform and the train.
An employee ran to help and after climbing down into the gap managed to lift the boy to safety, the report said.
Apart from being a little shaken, the child was unhurt and he and his family were able to continue on their journey home.