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WATCH: Girl Miraculously Survives After Her Father Jumps In Front Of Train With Her; Mother Responds

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A subway train pulls into the Flushing Avenue station in Brooklyn on February 2, 2019 in New York City.
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Commuters at a subway station in the Bronx Monday morning watched in horror as a man holding his 5-year-old daughter leapt in front of an oncoming subway train in an apparent suicide attempt. In a remarkable moment caught on video, two of the witnesses who had leapt down from the platform onto the tracks after the train came to a stop found that the little girl had miraculously survived.

“Dramatic video shows a little girl crawling out from underneath a subway train in the Bronx while commuters looked on in fear,” ABC 7 New York reported Monday along with cell phone footage of the rescue of the girl. “Her father jumped in front of the train while he held her in his arms. He did not survive, but she is going to be OK.”

The apparently suicidal man, 45, was wearing a backpack and holding his 5-year-old daughter in his arms when he jumped in front of the oncoming southbound No. 4 train at the elevated Kingsbridge Road station in the Kingsbridge Height section at around 8 a.m. Monday morning.

The action, witnesses say, appears to have been deliberate. While the man tragically died, the little girl sustained only minor injuries.

As the cell phone footage of her rescue shows, two citizen rescuers got down onto the tracks and worked to extricate the girl from underneath the train. When the rescuers pick her up and place her on the platform above, she is able to stand up and appears to be able to communicate with the stunned witnesses on the platform, who quickly encircle her, some raising their hands in relief.

The New York Post quotes Jennifer Hub, a mother of four who witnessed the shocking incident. The man, she said, was holding the girl “in his arms” when he “jumped on the tracks as the train was coming.” Hub said that 20 to 30 people where there “screaming” and trying to get the train to stop.

“I watched as that train came around that corner, and I saw as the man jumped and I see the little feet hanging out,” she said. “My theory is that the little girl was under the train and small enough she could roll because she only has a few abrasions on her forehead and arm.”

Another witness, Pamela Ivy, told ABC 7 that she “heard him telling the wife that, ‘You look out for the other two kids, I’m gonna take her to school,’ and then he said, ‘I love you,'” before leaping in front of the train.

ABC 7 also spoke with the train operator, who described the incident as “a traumatic event for everyone involved.”

The father was pronounced dead at the scene by emergency responders, police telling the press that they believe he deliberately jumped in front of the train.

The girl was quickly taken to the nearby Jacobi Medical Center and treated for minor injuries. Officials say the child’s mother met her at the hospital.

The two men who leapt down to rescue the girl also suffered minor injuries. They were taken to St. Barnabas Hospital for treatment, authorities say.

The mother of the girl spoke to the press Monday afternoon, thanking people for being there for her and her daughter, who is “in perfect condition,” but also asking them to “respect my pain” in this difficult moment.

“Please respect my pain,” the mother told reporters in a statement translated by ABC 7. “Thank you for being there, thank you for having my back. Thank you to the 52nd precinct — I’m home now and they’re still reaching out to make sure that I made it home OK, that I eat, that my daughter eats. Thank you, but please respect my pain. The child is in perfect condition, thank you to God and the angels who took care of her. Everything is fine, except the absence of my husband — thank you.”

ABC 7 has also posted video of the child and her family arriving home:

This article has been updated to include more information.

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