Shocked commuters recalled the frantic cries for help from a panicked mother moments before a passing train hit a pram which fell onto the tracks, killing her partner and one of her little girls in a freak accident.
Onlookers 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 South 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 twins’ 39-year-old mother was heard standing helplessly on the platform shouting “Save my babies” seconds before impact.
The second girl miraculously escaped unharmed, despite being trapped under the train.
Emergency services arrived at the scene within minutes and heard the surviving girl’s cries before finding her.
Harrowing CCTV footage (pictured) captured St George residents walking past a grocery store just minutes before arriving at the station.
Carlton train station was cordoned off for the rest of the day following the tragic accident.
The girl was rescued and handed over to her distraught mother on the platform before the couple were taken away. St. George’s Hospital.
The travelers were shocked by the tragedy.
“I knew right away that things were going wrong,” Grant Azzopardi recalls.
“I heard the train go by and I heard the lady running for her life, ‘please stop, stop.'”
‘The train couldn’t stop.’
Lauren Langelaar added: “She (the mother) was on the platform shouting her husband’s name.”
“We could only hear one child crying, not two.”
Disturbing footage captured the Kogarah family out on a Sunday hike just minutes before the tragedy.
Seven minutes before the accident, the family was seen walking past the shops towards a pedestrian crossing.
The father was in charge of the stroller while his partner held a wheeled suitcase.
She was seen browsing a grocery store before crossing the street towards the train station.
The family then used an elevator to access the platform.
The local Indian community has rallied to support the surviving mother and child, who arrived in Australia from India in October last year after the father found a new job in Sydney, the statement said. Nine news.
Miraculously, one of the twin girls was found alive under the train.
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.
Sydney Trains announced on Sunday evening that T4 trains were back to normal, ahead of the start of the working week.
An investigation has been launched into the circumstances surrounding the tragic deaths and police have checked the speed at which the train was travelling.
It is understood that an unexpected gust of wind may have thrown the pram off the platform and into the path of the oncoming train.
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.
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.
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, emergency services were seen at the station as they began the gruelling 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.
He added that the train driver and other staff were receiving support.
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.
