Tragic vid shows moments before pram rolls out into path of train killing girl, 2, and her dad in front of screaming mum
A HEARTBREAKING clip shows the moments before a pram carrying twins rolled onto train tracks, killing one of the girls and her father.
CCTV footage shows a family casually strolling around near Carlton station, southern Sydney, on Sunday, shortly before entering it.
It shows the dad, 40, pushing a black pram carrying two baby girls aged two, checking his phone while he waits for his wife outside a supermarket.
The mum quickly glances inside the shop before exiting onto the path to cross the road while carrying a pink shopping trolley.
Moments after the footage, first broadcast on 9News Australia, the family-of-four used a lift to reach their platform before the tragedy.
The dad temporarily lost control of his pram while on the platform and it swiftly rolled onto train tracks.
Anand Runwal bravely ran to rescue her but died as a passing train struck them both.
Commuters watched on in panic as Anand leaped down in the heroic attempt to save his daughter.
His wife Poonam screamed in agony as their other daughter was pulled from under the train by first responders.
The surviving twin managed to escape with minimal injuries but was admitted to hospital and released on Monday morning.
Witness Lauren Langelaar, who was working nearby, told Daily Mail Australia that the surviving two-year-old “hardly had a scratch” on her before she was reunited with her mother.
She said: “I ran out to help the mother because I could just hear her screaming while looking down onto the tracks.”
Poonam was so distressed that cops asked Ms Langelaar to hold her back while they jumped onto the scene.
The gutted mum initially refused paramedic help and pleaded with them to hold the surviving twin.
Poonam yelled: “Where is my husband and other child?”
Ms Langelaar added: “It all happened very quickly. I was down on the platform helping the mother try and scream out to her children and husband under the train.”
She claimed that one Sydney Trains worker on the platform at the time called emergency services at 12.25pm, telling them they could hear one of the two-year-olds crying.
Ms Langelaar explained that one man waved down the train to warn the train driver of the pram’s close proximity but failed as the train was not due to stop at Carlton station.
Anand and Poonam Runwal moved to Sydney in October 2023 from India with their twin daughters after Anand got a job at an IT firm, according to Daily Mail Australia.
New South Wales (NSW) Police Superintendent Paul Dunstan said the parents had taken their hands off for a “very short period of time” as it rolled towards the tracks.
He said that the reason for the pram’s rolling could even be down to a strong “gust of wind”.
NSW’s premier Chris Minns praised Anand’s bravery: “He gave his own life to try and save his children” and performed an “extraordinary, instinctual act of bravery”.
He has not ruled out bringing in new safety measures to prevent this happening in the future.
“We’ll work with NSW trains and police inquiries and if changes need to be made we’ll make them.”
But he admitted: “It’s too early to say, but I don’t want to close the door on any changes we could make.”