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Police are investigating after a woman was allegedly shoved onto train tracks by a stranger who then fled the scene.
The lady was rescued by bystanders who dived onto the tracks and pulled her back to the platform at Richmond Station in Melbourne at 3:50pm on Wednesday.
Victorian Police said the woman was allegedly pushed onto the tracks by a man who who was not known to her.
He is yet to be located.
Sky News Reporter Simon Love was there when the woman was pushed and he wrote on X that Good Samaritans saved her.
‘Good Samaritans got onto the tracks [and] lifted her up before she received medical attention,’ he wrote.
Paramedics treated the woman for non-life-threatening injuries at the scene before she was taken by road ambulance to the Alfred Hospital in a stable condition.
A woman has been rescued from train tracks after she was allegedly pushed off the platform at Melbourne’s Richard train station by a stranger at 4pm on Sunday (stock pictured)
Mr Love reported the incident to police and said that other commuters told him they saw ‘at least one other person pushed waiting on the platform’.
Anyone with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
More to come.
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