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The incident happened at Düsseldorf station in Germany (file photo).
A baby in Germany has been reunited with its parents after they watched in horror as it speed off on a train without them on board.
Federal police said the father had put a pram with his 11-month-old child inside onto the train but was waiting on the platform for his wife to join them when the doors closed and it pulled out of Düsseldorf station.
The panicked parents rushed to a taxi in hopes of catching the train at its next stop in the nearby city of Duisburg.
But passengers who spotted the unaccompanied baby alerted the conductor, who ordered the train to return to Düsseldorf.
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The parents eventually returned too and “the baby was handed back into the care of its grateful parents,” police said in a statement.