Woman injured after jumping off moving cable car

By Tom Qian  |   2008-10-20  |     ONLINE EDITION

A WOMAN jumped from a moving cable car and was slightly injured on Zijin Mountain in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, yesterday in a scene that could have been straight out of a movie, Yangtze Evening news reported today.

With the cable car about 10 meters above the ground, the woman jumped but was caught by her husband. He tried for one minute to pull her back up, but he lost his strength and she fell when the car was about five meters above the ground. She only suffered a minor injury, the report said.

According to the report, the couple was engaged in a heated argument when she jumped at about 1pm yesterday.

Passengers in the cable car behind the couple told the newspaper that the woman kept asking: “‘Why don’t you want me anymore?’ and ‘Since you don’t want me, I don’t want to live anymore!’” before she jumped.

When the man lost his grip on his wife, he cried out: “Help! Help!”

Some military policemen joined the rescue effort and ran nearly 1,000 meters with a stretcher and carried the injured woman to an ambulance at the top of the mountain, the report said.

According to the report, the woman, 28, is a Nanjing resident and is in stable condition while her husband is a 35-year-old native of Shanghai. The case is still under investigation, the report added.