A 25-year-old woman gave birth to a baby girl on a New York City subway train Wednesday morning, according to MTA officials.

In a story as heartwarming as it is shocking, a woman who had been missing for months was recently found after giving birth aboard a New York City subway train.

A woman gave birth on board a New York City subway Wednesday, the city's Metropolitan Transportation Authority says. It happened around 11:30 a.m. on a southbound W train in Manhattan. According to the MTA, multiple passengers alerted the conductor that a woman inside a train car had just given birth.