A father was crowned a hero after he defended his daughter against a passenger train

A man has rescued his 13-year-old daughter from death in the run-off by a passenger train as he protected her body on the tracks a few inches from the train. While many called it "Super Dad", the train worker claimed he was careless when he decided to cross the railroad

A father was crowned a hero after he defended his daughter against a passenger train

In the video - the drama moments where the father protects his daughter from the passenger train

A father from Ismailia in Egypt was crowned a hero in the local media and was nicknamed "Super-Dad" after jumping onto the train track and protecting his 13-year-old daughter while a train passed by - inches away. According to reports from the media in Egypt, the father and daughter said they crossed the tracks towards the opposite platform when a goods train, which honked in half, replaced the daughter. While the father was able to climb to the second platform, the daughter fell on the railroad tracks. Without thinking twice, the father jumped back into the tracks and lay down on his daughter as the train passed them.

"It was a horrible scene. We were all left on the station dock stunned," said student Ahmed Akf, who documented the incident on his mobile. Eyewitness Ella Ibrahim added: "The girl walked on the railroad tracks. Suddenly the commodity train made a siren and startled the girl who fell to the ground. At that moment her father decided to sacrifice himself to save her. For their lives. We almost got a heart attack. "

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While the father was being praised online for his behavior, one of the railroad employees came out against his careless behavior. Ashraf Abdul Hamid claimed that it was the father's negligence that he chose not to use the pedestrian tunnel to go to the other side of the station: "You call him a super-father, while he is actually a negligent father," he told the Egyptian television station CBC, "instead of passing on the designated route , He and his daughter crossed through the railroad track, where the goods train then passed. The father managed to hop onto the platform and left his daughter behind. "

The father was not identified but witnesses said he was in his 50s. He and his daughter emerged from the incident, which happened last night, unharmed.

Illustration of the father the hero saves his daughter as he appeared on the net (screenshot)

Illustration of the protagonist father saves his daughter (Photo: Facebook, screenshot)

This is how the Egyptian TV incident was reported