A shocking video has emerged showing a mother cradling a baby while perched between two carriages of speeding train. The woman can be seen sitting on the railway couplings with one hand around the child and the other hanging on to the train, with the ground speeding by underneath.

Onlookers said the woman had failed to get a seat inside the carriages while travelling in Bihar, India.

One local said: "The woman had asked for a seat but the passengers who were able to secure the seat first refused to give it to her.

"The woman then took to travel in the junction of the train with the infant in her hands."

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