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Police Officer Jumps In Front of Beijing Subway in Suicide
by Fauna on Friday, February 13, 2015
Baoding police officer jumps in front of a Beijing Subway Line 1 train to commit suicide.
From Sina Weibo:
@??????: #Subway Line 1 Passenger Falls on Tracks# Today at 7:05am, a man committed suicide at the Beijing Line 1 Subway Wukesong stop. This is the surveillance footage. @????’s [@BeijingSubway] statement [see below]
From Sina Weibo:
Statement Concerning This Early Morning’s Incident at the Wukesong Statione
This morning at 7:05 on February 12th, at the Beijing Line 1 Subway Wukesong stop (Pingguoyuan to Sihuidong direction), a male passenger in his 50s jumped off the station platform. The 2045 train came to an emergency stop after 2 cars entered the station. At 7:08am, workers cut electricity to the contact rail in their response as well as contacted public security authorities and the 999 emergency medical response center. At the same time, the Line 1 Subway began turning trains back at the Gongzhufen station. After 999 first responders arrived at the scene, they confirmed that the passenger was dead. Because the space beneath the train is small and narrow, the passenger was unable to be extracted. At 7:20, power was restored to the contact rail, allowing the train to be moved a bit to help with the extraction, but the passenger’s body still was unable to be extracted, so workers temporarily moved the body to between the tracks. At 7:41am, train 2045 completely entered the station and then out to provide space for extracting the passenger’s body. At 7:50am, power was again cut to the contact rail for the extraction. At 7:53am, the passenger’s body was brought up to the platform. At 7:55am, power was restored to the contact rail, and normal operations for Line 1 was progressively restored. To minimize the impact to passengers’ journeys at other areas of Line 1, the line continued operations from Sihuidong to Gongzhufen.
