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A 5-year-old girlwho survived after her father jumped in front of a New York City subway train Monday morningwith her in his arms is back home with her family.
“The girl is in perfect condition,” the girl’s mother, Niurka Caraballo, told reporters outside herBronx apartment Monday evening,according to theNew York Times. “Thank God and the angels who watched over her. Everything is O.K., except that now I’m without my husband.”
Shortly before 8 a.m., New York City police said Caraballo’s husband, 45-year-old Fernando Balbuena-Flores, jumped in front of a Manhattan-bound No. 4 subway train at Kingsbridge Station with his daughter in his arms.
The incident occurred in front of a platform of morning commuters.
One of the men who helped retrieve the girl, Antonio Love,told NBC New Yorkthat the child was calling out for her father: “Papa, Papa, Papa, that’s it. She didn’t say anything else.”
The girl sustained cuts and scratches and was taken to a local hospital, according to a police official. She has since been released, multiple outlets report.
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MTA spokesman Shams Tarek acknowledged that the incident was traumatic for everyone who witnessed it,telling NBC New York,“This is a tragedy and our thoughts are with the family members as well as with our train operator — this is a traumatic event for everyone involved.”
Relatives claimed Balbuena-Flores was suffering from depression, though Niurka Caraballotold theNew York Postshe had “no idea” he would try to take his own life or the child’s. “He was a good husband, a good father, a good provider and a good man,” she said through a translator, thePostreports.
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source: people.com
