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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Hannah Phillips & Zahna Eklund

Mortified woman alerts train staff to 'unwell man' on platform - but he's just a statue

A concerned train passenger has gone viral online after she reached out to station staff to ask them to check on an "unwell man" she saw at a platform - only to discover he was actually just a statue.

Emma Obank was on a train passing through Woking, Surrey, when she spotted what she thought was a man sitting on a bench covered in snow, who looked "frozen to death".

Worried for his safety, Emma contacted South Western Railway on Twitter to ask them to check on the man, but was left red-faced when she was told he wasn't really a man at all, but rather one of a series of sculptures found throughout Woking.

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