Delhi: 3 suicide attempts at metro stations

Three people tried to commit suicide at different Metro stations on Tuesday.

Three people tried to commit suicide at different Metro stations on Tuesday.

In the first incident, 25-year-old Sarita Sharma, mother of two children, jumped from the Udyog Nagar Metro station on the Inderlok-Mundka line in west Delhi around 9.15am.

She fell on a man on bicycle and he too suffered injuries and admitted to a hospital.

“She jumped on to the road from the elevated metro station and suffered injuries. She was taken to a hospital where her condition is said to be out of danger,” said a CISF official, requesting anonymity.

Sharma is a resident of Peeragarhi in west Delhi and had a fight with her husband. Before jumping down from the Metro station, she had called her husband.

In the second incident, an 18-year-old girl was saved by passengers when she jumped in front of a train at Pragati Maidan Metro station.

She was found roaming around the platform. She jumped on the tracks as a train was approaching.

But passengers signalled to stop it and the girl was helped on to the platform. A suicide note was recovered from her,

The third incident was reported from Botanical Garden Metro station in Noida at 2.20 pm.

A 30-year-old man jumped on the road from the Metro station. He was rushed to a nearby hospital where his condition was still critical.