Madrid:
A man who fell onto a railway line in Madrid on Friday was saved from serious injury or possible death by an off-duty policeman.
In the incident, caught on the platform CCTV camera at Madrid's Puerta del Angel station, a 41-year-old drunk man lost his balance and fell over the edge onto the tracks as a train bore down upon him.
The recording shows horrified passengers on the opposite platform, screaming for help and frantically waving at the train driver in a desperate bid to slow him down and to alert him to the man on the tracks.
Then suddenly, out of nowhere, calmly, amazingly and with little regard for his own safety a heroic man jumps down on to the tracks.
He makes his way to the drunk man and pulls him to safety from the path of the thundering train with just a split second to spare as the train grinds to a halt inches away from him.
He is then helped by fellow passengers to pull the man onto the platform.
According to details given later by the Spanish Police, the unnamed rescuer was an off-duty policeman who saved the victim from a certain death.
In the incident, caught on the platform CCTV camera at Madrid's Puerta del Angel station, a 41-year-old drunk man lost his balance and fell over the edge onto the tracks as a train bore down upon him.
The recording shows horrified passengers on the opposite platform, screaming for help and frantically waving at the train driver in a desperate bid to slow him down and to alert him to the man on the tracks.
Then suddenly, out of nowhere, calmly, amazingly and with little regard for his own safety a heroic man jumps down on to the tracks.
He makes his way to the drunk man and pulls him to safety from the path of the thundering train with just a split second to spare as the train grinds to a halt inches away from him.
He is then helped by fellow passengers to pull the man onto the platform.
According to details given later by the Spanish Police, the unnamed rescuer was an off-duty policeman who saved the victim from a certain death.
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