In Bangladesh, a baby fell onto the tracks while the train was already moving, and his father risked everything so that eight carriages passed over both of them without touching them

The train was already moving when the child slipped.

It happened at Bhairab station, Bangladesh, on April 28, 2026. Father and son were getting off a carriage when the little one, barely one or two years old according to different accounts, fell into the gap between the platform and the moving wheels. What followed was recorded by witnesses and is now being replayed on millions of screens: the father did not hesitate, threw himself after him, completely covered him with his body, and clung to the structure as the train continued moving.

Eight carriages passed over both of them. Centimeters of metal and speed separated tragedy from miracle. When the train finished passing, father and son got up unharmed, without a single injury to explain how they survived something that seemed impossible.

A father and his infant son narrowly escaped death after falling onto railway tracks at a station in Bangladesh as a train was pulling away.

The family had been travelling on the Titas commuter train from Brahmanbaria to Bhairab. As the train began moving, the father attempted… pic.twitter.com/czAOxNkWTE

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