Japanese toddler survives being run over by
train
TOKYO (AFP) - – A Japanese toddler who strayed onto rail tracks
got away with scratches Monday after a train ground to a halt on
top of her, police and rescuers said.
The driver spotted the girl standing on the tracks in Suzaka
City, northwest of Tokyo, and applied its emergency brakes, local
police said.
The train stopped with the girl beneath, they said.
She was alive and trapped in the 50-centimetre (20-inch) gap
between the train and the tracks, rescuers said.
"It could have been a tragedy. It's a miracle that she survived
this way," a rescue worker told the TV Asahi network.