Across China: Beijing

Woman jumps on line

A woman jumped onto a subway line in Beijing on Friday, forcing the service to be suspended for about 15 minutes, the operating company said.

The woman jumped at about 3 pm on to the No 2 Line, which runs in a loop around the center of the capital, at Changchunjie station, a spokesman with Beijing Mass Transit Railway Operation Co Ltd said. It was not immediately known why she jumped.