Harrowing CCTV footage has emerged showing the final moments of a young family before a pram containing two small children fell onto the train tracks.
Passengers watched in horror as the double pram with two-year-old twins inside fell from the platform onto the tracks at Carlton train station.tation in From Sydney Approximately 12.25pm on Sunday.
The twins’ 40-year-old father jumped from the platform in a heroic attempt to rescue them.
A train passing through the station ran over and killed the father and one of the girls.
The second girl miraculously escaped unharmed, despite being trapped under the train.
She was taken to St George’s Hospital with her mother, 39, who was on the platform when the accident happened.
Disturbing images captured residents of St. George just minutes before they entered the station.
Harrowing CCTV footage (pictured) captured St George residents walking past a grocery store just minutes before entering the station.
The parents were seen walking toward a crosswalk and the mother was seen looking at a grocery store before crossing the street.
The local Indian community has rallied to support the family, who arrived in Australia from India in October last year after the father found work in Sydney, the report said. Nine news.
An investigation has been launched into the circumstances surrounding the tragic deaths and police have checked the speed at which the train was travelling.
At the time the train was travelling from Cronulla to the city and was not scheduled to stop at Carlton Station.
The station remained closed on Sunday night.
However, trains have resumed between Wolli Creek and Hurstville on the T4 Eastern Suburbs and Illawarra line, but will not stop at Carlton.
Travellers travelling to and from Carlton can take replacement buses from Kogarah or Allawah.
The travelers were shocked by the tragedy.
Local resident Grant Azzopardi expressed his shock following the incident.
“I heard the train go by and I heard the lady running for her life. ‘Please stop, stop,’ she said.
‘The train didn’t stop’
New South Wales Police Superintendent Paul Dunstan said the parents apparently took their hands off the pram for “a very brief period” as it rolled onto the tracks.
Dunstan said police were investigating what caused the stroller to tip over and said it could have been something as simple as a “gust of wind.”
He said the father “went into parent mode to save his two young daughters” after realising the train had gone onto the tracks.
“It was a heroically brave act as a father… and it cost him his life,” he said.
The local Indian community has rallied to support the family (pictured) who arrived in Australia from India in October last year after the father found work in Sydney.
New South Wales Premier Chris Minns, who lives 100 metres from the station, said the father died while carrying out an “extraordinary and instinctive act of bravery”.
“He gave his own life to try to save his children,” he said.
Mr Minns described the incident as a “terrible, terrible tragedy” for surviving relatives and first responders.
Police arrived a few minutes after receiving the call from triple zero and could “hear crying” coming from under the car.
Mr Dunstan said it was “good luck more than anything” that the young woman was able to escape the tragedy relatively unscathed.
“She was kind of between the tracks (because of) the way she had fallen and she was practically intact,” he said.
Mr Dunstan said the mother was “obviously very traumatised”.
“She is clearly in shock and struggling to come to terms with what has happened today,” he said.
Two hours after the incident, firefighters were seen at the station as they began the grueling task of removing bodies from beneath the train.
NSW Police said the incident was not being treated as suspicious and officers were investigating the circumstances surrounding the cause of the deaths of the father and daughter (pictured, officers at the station).
Sydney Trains chief executive Matt Longland said all relevant information, including security footage, had been handed over to police to assist their investigation.
Mr Longland said the train would not stop at the station on the way to Bondi Junction.
“(The train) was approaching the station with caution, so our drivers have instructions to drive to ensure that there are no incidents on the platform,” he said.
“These types of incidents are incredibly rare, but clearly, the results are absolutely tragic.”
Mr Longland said Sydney Trains was working to restore regular services early in the working week on Monday morning.
One passenger reportedly tried to flag down the driver to warn him of the danger, but was unsuccessful.
A passenger in the fifth carriage of the train told Seven News that while he did not see what happened, it was “disturbing” that children were involved.
All passengers were evacuated before police established a crime scene (pictured) and halted services between Wolli Creek and Hurstville stations.