A father has been called a hero after being killed by a train with his two-year-old daughter.
The man had been at the platform with his twin daughters and the girls’ mom when the stroller the twins were sitting in rolled onto the tracks.
A train was approaching the platform at Carlton Station in Sydney, and the dad leapt onto the tracks to save his two children just before 12.30pm.
When police arrived at the station just minutes later they heard crying coming from underneath the train.
They were able to save one of the twins, but tragically one child and the father were killed by the train.
The twins’ mom was not physically harmed, but had watched from the platform as the horrific incident unfolded.
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