TRAIN HORROR: Moment a little girl PLUNGES beneath carriage just before train speeds off
THIS is the heart-stopping moment a little girl slipped into the gap between the train and the platform to the horror of carriage onlookers.
The young girl fell beneath the train and out of sight
The young girl fell beneath the train and out of sight just as her mother turned her back to leave the station.
She appears to try and follow her mother out of the train but her foot slips and she loses her balance above the gap.
The youngster's life was miraculously saved by a Good Samaritan who desperately jumped to slam the emergency alarm.
The man's quick thinking managed to stop the train from moving off and crushing the girl to death.
Child falls down tube train gap in Melbourne
The girl's terrified scream alerts the mother who rapidly rushes back to the platform in east Melbourne, Australia.
She throws her shopping bags to the ground and runs to where her young daughter vanished.
The video has already racked up more than two million views
The girl's terrified scream alerts the mother
The panicked mother immediately reached down and managed the pull her traumatised child to safety.
The video, shared by Iya Laje on Facebook, has already racked up more than two million views.
The youngster's life was miraculously saved by a Good Samaritan
A spokesman for the Melbourne Metro said: "This is every parent's worst nightmare.
"In just a split second a child can disappear between the train and the platform.
"The mother was lucky enough to be able to reach the child in the particular position and pull her out from underneath the train."
The girl escaped the horrifying ordeal unhurt.