Woman Dies After Getting Trapped in Doors of Beijing Subway

(Beijing) – A woman was killed in a Beijing subway station during peak hours after being caught between the door of a train and the safety gate on the platform on November 6.

The accident happened at around 6:57 p.m. at a station along subway Line 5 and the woman was sent to a hospital and pronounced dead at 8:20 p.m., Beijing Mass Transit Railway Operation Corp. Ltd., the operator of the line, said via Sina Weibo, the country's version of Twitter, later the same day.