The lives of a young Argentine woman and a Colombian intersected by a miracle that occurred at the Independencia station of the metropolitan railways of Buenos Aires; when she almost lost her track by falling unconscious in the middle of two carriages of a moving train and he came to their rescue against all obstacles.
The incident occurred on March 29, when Candela Salazar, 24, was on her way to a job interview to end three months of unemployment. She entered the Belgrano Sur Line station in La Matanza and felt dizzy.
She suffered a low blood pressure that caused her to lose her balance. He tried to ask for help from the passengers waiting for the train, but he received no response. He felt that he was going to fall to the floor, he told C5N, and he approached a man to whom he said “sir, I feel bad.”
It was all on security cameras at the station. The man could not react, as she staggered to the edge of the boarding platform. At that time, a train was crossing and she hit one of the doors and fell through the junction of two cars still walking.
All the witnesses, imagining the tragedy, turned their eyes in surprise. Except Mario Betancourt, a man born in Antioquia, a regular supporter of football, fan of Atlético de Madrid and Atlético Nacional, who has been living in Argentina for 11 years where he works as a furniture salesman.
As soon as the train stopped, he lay down on the platform to see if there was any way to help the woman who had just fallen onto the rails. “I see that everyone is shocked and no one comes out to help her. I throw myself out of one,” Betancourt told Telemundo News.
When she saw her tears dripped away. Against all odds, he found her conscious and without any injury to the naked eye. He even asked her name and she answered him, but he doesn't remember anything. “It's something extraordinary, it's something my God did. She was wrong, she was beaten, I thought she died, honestly,” she added.
At that time the station guards arrived and more people came. The authorities asked Betancourt to leave because no one could touch her but the relief corps, but he got angry, spoke bad words to them and went down to the train track to help Salazar and put her safe on the platform.
It is not known how, Candela, after falling, was left in the space between the platform and the rails. A place where she could only stay because of luck, she says, and which allowed her to leave unharmed, without a single scratch anywhere on her body.
However, she had to spend 12 days hospitalized while the checkups were being done to determine that everything was okay and the causes of the fainting. Pressure drops had happened to him before, not as often to exercise greater precautions, nor at as high a risk as this last time.
“I was not only lucky with the accident but also with the people who treated me,” the young woman told the C5N channel. She was only aware of what had happened when she was surrounded by many people, lying on the floor, already safe on the platform.
Later she learned that Mario had helped her and she never stops thanking him for his courage. Both are moved by watching the video of the scene and are surprised how it all ended up in an anecdote and not a painful memory.
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