Heroic bystanders rescue girl after father dies jumping in front of NYC subway while holding her in his arms.
Cellphone video captured a harrowing rescue on Monday, showing bystanders who scrambled to rescue a young girl when her father jumped in front of a moving train while holding her in his arms.
The 5-year-old girl miraculously landed in a safe space below the train, allowing her to survive the frightening incident. She was crying and calling for her father, who was pronounced dead on the scene. The child, dressed in a blue jacket and a pink backpack, emerged from tracks with some cuts to her face, but she managed to walk away without assistance.
"By the sake of God, the ended up under the train, underneath between the wheels. This is how she was able to survive," one witness told New York ABC station WABC."I heard him telling the wife that, 'You look out for the other two kids, I'm gonna take her to school,' and then he said, 'I love you,'" witness Pamela Ivy told WABC.
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