DEPRESSION? A witness said the woman had been sitting on a bench looking downcast and jumped onto the tracks just as the train was approaching the station
Taipei Times
Date: Feb 16, 2018
By: Tony Yao, Yang Yung-sheng and Chang Shun-teng / Staff reporters, with CNA
A woman was yesterday fatally struck by a Puyuma Express train at the Miaoli Railway
A Puyuma Express train remains halted on railway tracks next to the Miaoli Railway Station in Miaoli County yesterday after striking a woman. Photo: Chang Hsun-teng, Taipei Times
Station in an apparent suicide, the Taiwan Railways Administration said.
The incident, which occurred at 10:23am, halted train services along the route for nearly an hour and affected 700 passengers, the agency said.
The Puyuma Express No. 110 train was bound for Nangang Station in Taipei when it hit the woman and tossed her body to the southbound track, it said.
Sources said the woman, surnamed Chen (陳), was 38 years old and had disabilities. [FULL STORY]
