Twitter came to the rescue of three little children, apparently abandoned by their father Tuesday evening at the busy New Delhi Railway Station.
The children were later reunited with their mother. Police are investigating the children's' abandonment.
Police were were alerted when a tweet about the children started trending yesterday evening. A member of the public tweeted that the scared children, all under the age of 10, were seen huddled together on platform 16 of the railway station. "Plz (sic) help urgently," the tweet said. The children were untraceable for an agonizing thirty minutes from when the police started looking for them. They were finally spotted on platform number one.
The children also managed to tell the police where they lived and guided them to their home. When police knocked on the door of their one-room house in Nabi Karim, the children's' mother had clearly been asleep. "You're here sleeping and you don't know your kids are missing?" a policeman asked her.
The Railway Protection Force took Tabassum's statement when they handed the children back to her. They will continue to investigate and may call the father for questioning.
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