This is the shocking moment a commuter risks her life after missing a train's closing doors - then opening them with her bare hands.<br /><br />Two middle-aged women rushed towards the subway train but one of them narrowly missed boarding when the sliding glass platform doors closed in front of her.<br /><br />But the determined woman refused to let timetables or safety rules prevent her from catching the train at the Little India subway station in Singapore.<br /><br />CCTV footage from Sunday (August 25) afternoon shows how she used her bare hands to open the station's safety doors.<br /><br />She managed to pull them apart then climbed into the gap between the platform and the train door - risking almost certain death if the train had pulled away and knocked her to the tracks.<br /><br />The woman then frantically banged on the carriage door which then opened to let her inside.<br /><br />Shocked staff ran to help her while stopping the train from leaving.<br /><br />But even after the chaotic scenes the stubborn woman still insisted on staying on the train. <br /><br />Staff briefly checked the platform before letting it depart with the woman now safely onboard. <br /><br />Shocked passenger Lee Tian Xi, who was travelling in the same train, said: "I remember wondering why the train took so long to depart on that day. <br /><br />"I also heard someone cry aloud as they saw the woman opening the door."
