An absolutely staggering rescue story comes now from Russia where a Good Samaritan tugged an unconscious man clear of an oncoming train with less than a second before it passed over him.
In a video obtained by the Sun, security camera footage shows a tall man stumbling towards train tracks while what are clearly the headlights of an oncoming train illuminate the gloom under an overpass.
Whether he was intoxicated, suicidal, or suffering from a medical emergency is not known, nor is the identity of his savior.
What is known, however, is that the stumbling man pauses at the verge of the first track before collapsing face first onto it.
From an area of concrete and buildings just beyond, two men see what happened. One of them sprints 20 yards, leaps the tracks, and with what GNN can only assume to have been an almighty hoist, pulls the prone body off the track just as the train passes by.
Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper have put out a notice saying, that the hero is being sought so that he can be honored by the community.
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One of my favorite films, “While You Were Sleeping” has the same rescue scene. Highly recommended!