A woman in Tamil Nadu’s Coimbatore had a narrow escape after she was targeted by car-borne chain snatchers and almost got run over by the assailants’ car.

Shocking footage of the horrifying incident that was caught on security cameras shows the woman walking down a street when a speeding car approaches her behind and a man is reaching out and tries to snatch her chain.

The woman, identified as 33-year-old Kaushalya, instinctively holds on to her jewellery as the attacker tries grabs hold and tries to snatch her chain even as the car speeds up and drags her along the road for a little distance.

Eventually, the thieves let go of Kaushalya and abandon their bid and flee the scene as she falls down on the ground, the viral video shows.

A senior official of the Coimbatore City Police said that a case was registered following the incident and during investigation the two chain snatchers were identified and arrested.

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They have been identified as Abhishek and Sakhtivel.

A similar incident was reported from national capital New Delhi last month where two motorcycle-borne assailants were caught on film while snatching the chain of a woman at gunpoint in the city’s Rohini area.

The security camera footage of the crime which has gone viral on social media shows the two robbers approaching a woman while she’s standing near a shop. One of the attackers wearing a face mask points a gun at the woman in a bid to snatch her chain.

The woman tries to resist but falls downs as she cries for help while the robber loses his helmet but manages to snatch her chain and flees the scene along with his accomplice.

Meanwhile, upon witnessing the robbery, a man inside the shop tries to come to the woman’s aid but flees after the robber brandishes a pistol.

According to the police, the incident happened on the evening of April 13 (Thursday) in Rohini area of Delhi.

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Many of us would have seen people flattening themselves along the ground on roller skates to clear a bar close to the floor. A similar feat has been performed by a man while stealing mobile phones. He can be seen contorting himself through the bare opening like the ones in liquor stores for taking cash and handing out the goods.

The now-viral video was shared by a Reddit user and where the incident took place is not discernable.

Here’s how it happened. In the video, the man can be seen pushing himself through the opening barely a foot wide. He pushes himself through feet first and holds onto the bars for support while his legs dangle inside the mobile phone shop. It looks like he almost won’t make it inside when by some dint of superhuman will, he manoeuvres his shoulders to pass through.

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Caught entirely on CCTV inside the shop, the man disappears from the screen and returns with some mobiles, we aren’t sure if they were iPhones or some such expensive instruments. If the journey in was nail-biting, the exit is also similar with his hands holding his final push for freedom. But he manages that with some acrobatic finesse and vamooses with the mobiles.

The thief was wearing a make-shift mask.

The viral video astounded Redditors. A user hailed the agility of the burglar and the efficiency with which he carried out the theft.

Another wondered why the bars had an opening in them. Another user said the thief might be desperate or maybe needed to make his ends meet or perhaps under the threat of a boss, assuming it is organised with a network.

One user compared the thief to Chinese action film star Jackie Chan. Others claimed the thief was a genius. A suggestion that came was that the should electrify the bars and then record it. Some viewers claimed it was a video from Brazil but we have not been able to ascertain that definitely.

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A heartwarming incident has come to the fore from Karnataka’s Chikmagalur where a woman bus conductor helped a passenger give birth to a baby on a bus. The woman delivered the baby with the help of a conductor after she began experiencing labour pain while travelling in the Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC).

The incident happened at around 1:25 pm on Monday at the Bangalore-Chikmagalur route near Udayapura Agriculture College when the 22-year-old pregnant woman started developing labour pains. The woman conductor identified as S.Vasanthamm asked the driver to stop the bus and asked the passengers to deboard.

Vasanthamm, who had earlier worked in the hospital labour ward, aided the woman to deliver the baby on the bus.

The 52-year-old Vasanthamm told that she quit her job as an assistant in the labour ward in a hospital 20 years ago to join the KSRTC as a conductor, she perhaps never imagined that her previous training would come in handy aboard a bus.

She said the pregnant woman, Fatima, a resident of Assam, was travelling from Bengaluru to Chikkamagaluru with her mother-in-law and, son to join her husband, who works in a coffee estate in Mudigere taluk when she developed labour pain. Other passengers noticed her suffering and informed her.

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Vasanthamma quickly stepped in to assist Fatima deliver the baby on the bus near Udayapura in Hassan. In the meantime, the passengers contacted the ambulance but by the time the ambulance could reach the spot, the baby was born. She delivered a female baby.

The mother was later shifted to the community health centre at Shantigrama by ambulance. Vasanthamma said Fatima is from a poor family so she requested the passengers to offer some help and she was able to collect Rs 1,500 which she gave to her. Later, she accompanied Fatima to the hospital and both the newborn baby and mother are doing fine.

G.Sathyvathi IAS Managing Director, KSRTC appreciated the timely intervention of the woman conductor. The officer said the timely humanitarian service of the woman conductor in responding to the needs of the pregnant woman and saving the lives of the child and mother is highly appreciable.

Vasanthamma also received a call from H.T. Veeresh, Divisional Controller of Chikkamagaluru Depot. The KSRCT will felicitate her in a programme soon.

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