Watch: Teenager falls off local train, narrowly avoids death

• An 18-year-old laborer fell from a moving train in Mumbai, India.
• Danish Khan was hanging out of a motor coach attached to a suburban train.
• The teenager sustained serious injuries after hitting a signal pole.

After falling off a moving local train in Mumbai, an 18-year-old kid was hospitalized with fractures. The teenager sustained serious injuries.

Apparently hitting a signal pole in the Thane area, the event happened on Thursday morning while the youngster was hanging out of the train, according to a Government Railway Police (GRP) official.

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The 18-year-old has been admitted with fractures. He was lucky but many others are not.
Railway police appeal to people to not risk their lives like this.@grpmumbai @HTMumbai @RoadsOfMumbai @mumbaimatterz pic.twitter.com/0iBjuTn3g2

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The event happened on Thursday when a laborer from Bhaskar Nagar in Kalwa named Danish Hussain Khan lost his balance and tripped over railroad rails.

Along with three other commuters, he was hanging out of a small, locked door of a motor coach (which is attached between compartments) of the suburban train.

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Social media users shared the smartphone footage of the incident that some bystanders had captured.

Khan can be seen in the footage tripping over rails and running into a pole.

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According to GRP, the victim was transported in an auto-rickshaw to the neighboring Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Hospital at Kalwa within 20 minutes of the accident.

He hurt his hand and his leg. His state is reportedly steady.