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The interior of a Seoul metro train on Sunday. (Yonhap) |
South Korean police said Monday that a woman in her 20s was hit by a metro train, breaking her leg, after jumping onto the tracks at Hannam Station in Yongsan-gu, Seoul.
The woman, who was reportedly drunk at the time, climbed over a fence erected around the station and ran toward the platform at around 11:50 p.m., in what officials presume was an attempt to catch the Gyeongui–Jungang Line train. She was hit by the arriving train and fractured her leg, so was taken to a nearby hospital for medical treatment.
Along with the injury, the accident caused a 20- to 30-minute delay for three metro trains and two northbound KTX trains to Cheongnyangni Station.
The conductor of the train that hit the woman told the police that "a person appeared all of a sudden and started running toward the platform." Officials plan to question the woman.
Hannam Station, located on the northwestern end of the Hannam Bridge and overlooking the Han River, is a ground-level metro station used by some 8,000 people every day. The station has fences for blocking pedestrians from approaching the tracks.
