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A video showing a 17-year-old girl having a narrow escape while standing on the footboard of a Mumbai local train has gone viral on social media.
The 30-second clip shows the girl, a resident of Diva near Mumbai, leaning out and waving to trains coming from the opposite direction while standing on the footboard of a Kalyan-bound train.
The incident took place between suburban Vikhroli and Kanjurmarg stations. The video, shot by another commuter, went viral on Tuesday, 2 October.
It also shows the girl hugging the fellow commuters who saved her life.
She also said that the accident happened because of her own fault.
A senior Central Railway official said she was immediately attended to by the railway staff and provided first aid when the train stopped at the next station. She was later sent to a nearby hospital.
(With inputs from PTI)
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