Japan Train commuters free woman who fell between the platform and the train Monday July 22,2013

Train passengers and Japan Railways staff push a train car in their effort to rescue a woman who fell and got stuck between the car and the platform while getting off at Minami-Urawa Station in Saitama, near Tokyo on Monday morning July 22,2013


A public announcement that a passenger was trapped prompted about 40 people to join train officials to push the carriage, whose suspension system allows it to lean to either side

Dozens of Japanese train passengers pushed a 29-tonne train carriage away from the platform to free a woman who had fallen into the 20-centimetre gap between the train and platform during the busy morning rush hour 

The unnamed woman in her 30s was then pulled out uninjured to applause from onlookers at Minami-Urawa station in Saitama, just north of Tokyo

After just an eight-minute delay, the train went on its way.