It's probably the ultimate survival story. A child is born prematurely, slips through the toilet bowl of a running train, crash lands onto the tracks. The entire train passes over her, but she is alive and is now sleeping peacefully at the Rajasthan Hospital in Ahmedabad.
It's nothing short of a miracle for the tiny bundle weighing just 1.4 kg also survived the midnight chill.
The baby's father, Prabhu Bhai says, "God and the doctors helped save my baby. My employer also helped me out."
Bhuri Kalbi from Rajasthan was on her way to Ahmedabad. Heavily pregnant, she felt weak and passed out on the toilet seat without realising she had delivered a baby right in that toilet.
It was only when she regained consciousness and her relatives pulled the chain, that the train stopped some two stations later.
Meanwhile, the baby was discovered by railwaymen and taken to a local doctor.
Dr Gautam Jain, who is looking after the the girl says, "The baby is stable now. We are hopeful that she will live. It was a miracle that she survived the accident."
The entire episode still sends shivers down her spine, but Bhuri Bai is just thankful to God that her child is safe and with her. Call it a miracle, or simply God's will, the fact is that fortune favours the brave.
