Dozens of Japanese train passengers pushed a 32-ton
train carriage away from the platform to free a woman
who had fallen into the 20-centimeter (eight-inch) gap
between the train and platform during the busy
morning rush hour on Monday.
The act of heroism was captured by a newspaper
photographer, whose photo of the rescue ran in the
Yomiuri daily's evening edition.
A public announcement that a passenger was trapped
prompted about 40 people to join train officials to push
the carriage, whose suspension system allows it to lean
to either side, according to the Yomiuri newspaper,
Japan's largest daily.
The unnamed woman in her 30s was then pulled out
uninjured to applause from onlookers at JR Minami-
Urawa station, just north of Tokyo.
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