Mar. 17, 2005. 07:49 AM
SHANGHAI, China (AP) — A man who jumped off a fourth-storey balcony in an apparent suicide landed on a 72-year-old woman, killing himself and leaving her in hospital with broken bones and other injuries, a news report said today.
The man jumped from a balcony on the side of a supermarket in Shanghai at midday Wednesday, landing on Gao Yuzhen, who suffered a ruptured liver and a broken leg and ribs, the newspaper Shanghai Daily reported.
"The man died on the spot but he fell onto an old woman before reaching the ground," it quoted a witness, Lu Zhinian, saying.
The man carried no identification and police were still trying to find out his name, the report said.
Gao was taken to hospital and had surgery, the newspaper said.
SHANGHAI, China (AP) — A man who jumped off a fourth-storey balcony in an apparent suicide landed on a 72-year-old woman, killing himself and leaving her in hospital with broken bones and other injuries, a news report said today.
The man jumped from a balcony on the side of a supermarket in Shanghai at midday Wednesday, landing on Gao Yuzhen, who suffered a ruptured liver and a broken leg and ribs, the newspaper Shanghai Daily reported.
"The man died on the spot but he fell onto an old woman before reaching the ground," it quoted a witness, Lu Zhinian, saying.
The man carried no identification and police were still trying to find out his name, the report said.
Gao was taken to hospital and had surgery, the newspaper said.
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