Baby born on Metro, gets free travel for 25 years!

• The service was interrupted and a doctor on board was able to help Ousmane's mother through her labour.

When a doctor saw a woman co-passenger in labour on the Paris Metro, he helped her go through the process. That's how Ousmane came into the world on Wednesday night. Now, RATP - the Paris transport operator - has given the baby boy free transport on the underground railway system for the next 25 years, a Daily Mail report said.

The child was on a train that stopped at Glaciere Station in the French capital.

"The service on Line 6 was interrupted and, by chance, a doctor was on board who was able to help Ousmane's mother through her labour,' an official working for RATP was quoted as saying in the report. "Ousmane has now been given a free travel card which will be valid until 2043," he added.The baby boy was born at 10:40pm and the mother was taken to Hôpital Cochin in the 14th arrondissement by firefighters a few minutes after, reported The Local in France.

In June, a baby boy was born on the underground train on the A line at Auber station in the north of the city.

The operator's official Twitter even live-tweeted the event.

The birth disrupted the train service, but the operators sent out congratulations to the mother and her child.

In September, another baby was born in a "lightening birth" in Gare du Nord - the busiest station in Europe.

"I saw a woman in difficulty,' Paris transport worker-turned-mid-wife Mohamed Nadour had then told Le Parisien.

"I realised that her waters had broken and she was in the process of giving birth. I laid the woman down. She was crying in agony. She told me the baby was coming. Fortunately, there was a hospital nurse on her way to work. She stopped to help me."

"It was a lightning birth, it took 10 minutes maximum," Mohamed said.