‘Intense’ moment dog was rescued after falling under a Tube train
Passengers waited patiently onboard a London Underground train as the dog's new owner tried to rescue it.
Video footage shows the moment a dog was rescued from under a tube train after a woman was heard screaming for help.
Passengers travelling through King’s Cross underground station were met with an ‘intense’ scene as people scrambled to pull the dog from the gap between the platform and a train.
In the footage, a man can be seen lying on the ground as he reaches below the edge of the platform while passengers waited on board the train.
A man’s voice can be heard saying, ‘I only just bought him today’, followed by a woman calling out for ‘Milo’.
Station staff in orange hi-vis jackets then arrived shouting ‘move back, move back’, as one onlooker says, ‘the professionals have arrived’.
A visibly shaken blond-haired dog was then lifted on to the platform where it cowered amid a chorus of ‘aw’ from the watching crowd.
It was then comforted with a bowl of water as the owner bent down to meet it at eye level.
One passenger was reading Metro when they noticed the chaos as their Hammersmith and City Line train pulled into King’s Cross just before midday on Wednesday.
The passenger, who filmed the footage and asked to stay anonymous, initially feared a child had fallen under the train.
He told Metro.co.uk: ‘As I was getting out, I heard a woman screaming.
‘On the other side of the train platform, there was a big crowd. It looked like there was something going on.
‘I thought there might be a fire, it might be something else, so I went back into the train, found one of the emergency buttons and pressed it.’
Describing the ‘difficult situation’, he said: ‘The man who was kneeling down, he was desperate to the get the dog out to the point where he was going to jump in under the train.
‘People told him not to do it. I was really scared, I didn’t know what to do.’
Panic turned to relief once the dog was liberated.
He said: ‘I felt really good for the dog. I was definitely relieved.’
The passenger suspects the incident happened because the dog was overwhelmed by the noise and crowds flowing through the station.
The passenger said: ‘Other dog owners should be careful about taking their dog on the train. The trains are really loud.’
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