Woman crushed to death by Beijing subway train
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A woman was crushed to death on Thursday evening after getting caught between a moving subway train and a safety barrier on the Beijing Metro.
The incident happened at 6:57pm at Huixin West Street Station on Line 5, the subway operator said.
A witness surnamed Liu, who said he was just a few meters from where the accident happened, told Caixin.com yesterday that the station was very busy at the time.
“There were queues of about 20 people in front of every (train) door,” he said.
“The woman was pulled away by the train and we could hear loud noises coming from behind the barrier,” he said.
“People on the platform were really scared,” he said.
According to the Metro operator, the victim, identified only as a 33-year-old woman, became trapped between the side of the train and the safety barrier on the platform.
As the train left the platform, she was dragged along before falling on to the track, the firm said on its Weibo microblog.
Workers immediately cut the power to the train forcing it to halt, opened the safety barriers and lifted the woman from the track. She was taken to the China-Japan Friendship Hospital but was pronounced dead at 8:20pm, it said.
The Beijing News quoted a doctor as saying the woman was alive when she arrived at the hospital.
“She had multiple bone fractures and bruises all over her body, which suggested she had been crushed,” he said.
Liu said some people realized what was happening and began banging on the barrier doors, but the train began moving before they could free the woman.
Another witness was quoted as saying that the train didn’t stop until it was about 100 meters from the platform.
Although the accident was captured by surveillance cameras, the images are not very clear as the accident happened at the center of the train and the cameras are at each end of the platform, a Metro employee was quoted by Caixin as saying.
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