Trending: Thief snatches phone and then hangs off a moving train

The viral video shows the thief jumping off the train as passengers beat him; netizens react.

A video has recently gone viral on the internet, which shows a thief snatching a phone from a passenger. He is later seen hanging off the moving train and jumping after passengers beat him. The clip shows the thief clinging to the doorway of the speeding train, holding on for several tense minutes.

The thief clings to a moving train’s doorway and then jumps off.

A dramatic incident happened recently aboard the Bhagalpur-Muzaffarpur Janseva Intercity Express near Bihar’s Munger. The video of the incident has now gone viral on the internet, involving a thief allegedly fleeing with a stolen phone. He was caught on camera hanging from the footboard of a moving train before leaping off mid-journey. The man was seen in a torn t-shirt, jeans, holding a shirt in his hand, and was injured. He snatched a passenger’s phone and tried to escape. With no route to flee, he latched onto the train’s footboard, desperately holding on as the train sped ahead. The video also showed passengers hurling abuses at him and some even beating him with a belt as he clung dangerously from the footboard. At one point, the thief is also seen warning the men attacking him that he would drag them down if they didn’t back off. He then slips, lowers, and jumps off the train into the bushes near the track.

Watch the viral video here:

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Netizens react to the viral video.

One user wrote, “Now people will sympathize with the thief, but have you ever felt when your belongings get stolen, expensive phones, watch, money, and many more, not once but on a daily basis, his fate was decided.” Another wrote, “Koi insaan pura mahine mehnat karke 12000 ka mobile buy karta hai, aur aese log ek jhatke me chura lete hai. Jab inke ander koi manwata nahi toh inke prati bhi kisi ko koi samvedna nahi rakhni chahiye” (When someone works hard all month to buy a phone worth Rs 12,000 and such people snatch it in a second, if they show no humanity, they deserve no sympathy either.) A third person commented, “Both are wrong—when someone’s hard-earned money is stolen, only they know the pain. But there is a legal system for justice. No one should take the law into their own hands. In such cases, the thief’s life could also be at risk.”