Beijing subway suicide brings services to halt
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A BEIJING subway line was halted after a man jumped off the platform, killing himself at a downtown station yesterday evening, the operator and witnesses said.
Sources with Beijing Mass Transit Railway Operation Corporation Limited, the operator, said the incident happened at 5:24pm at Xuanwumen station on Line 2.
Police and subway staff rushed into a train to evacuate passengers and medical staff later arrived.
Sources said the man was killed in the incident.
The station was forced to close and trains running clockwise on the line had to be halted. Services resumed at 5:41pm, subway authorities said.
The loop line, which runs 23 kilometers with 18 stations along Beijing’s second ring road in the capital’s downtown area, is one of the busiest in the capital.
It started operations in 1987 and transports more than one million people each day.
The suspension made other subway lines, such as Line 1, 4, and 5, even more crowded. The intervals were much longer than normal.
Beijing, with nearly 20.7 million people, has 14 subway lines carrying over 8.5 million passengers on an average day, according to official figures.
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