TOKYO (TR) – Last week, a younger girl sat down on a footbridge over the Tobu Tojo Line close to Narimasu Station in Itabashi Ward in the course of the morning rush hour for an prolonged interval, inflicting the suspension of 43 prepare companies in each instructions and affecting roughly 16,000 folks.
At round 5:20 a.m. on August 20, the motive force of an area prepare heading outbound from Ikebukuro to Ogawamachi noticed a girl within the route of journey and suspended service at Narimasu Station.
The firm notified police, who then dispatched police and emergency companies to cope with the scenario, in accordance with Tobu Railway’s Public Relations Department, experiences J-cast News (Aug. 20).
The girl was sitting on one in every of a number of planks protruding from the surface of the footbridge. This plank is a function of the footbridge designed to stop objects from falling on the overhead wires.
Over the subsequent hour, two law enforcement officials persuaded the girl to come back down from the footbridge spanning the tracks above the railroad crossing.
Train passengers supplied reside protection of the incident on X. Photos and movies confirmed emergency personnel inserting mats on the tracks and in addition stringing up netting in preparation for an incident.
On X, person Gitaka (@GITAKATV) wrote, “Tojo Line services are suspended…I thought something was going on…Please stop…” Photos included within the put up present two law enforcement officials reaching out their palms to the girl.
According to experiences, in an effort to rescue the girl, energy to the overhead strains on the Tojo Line was minimize off. Passengers posted on X that the air con in suspended trains had gone out and the carriages had been as scorching as a steam bathtub. Some lamented that the prepare was falling throughout rush hour and that they might not have the ability to make it to work.
During the rescue, two law enforcement officials pulled on the appropriate and left palms of the girl, who was clearly reluctant to be rescued, to stop her from falling. Finally, at round 6:30 a.m., one other police officer pushed her upward whereas different officers and paramedics efficiently pulled her onto the footbridge and rescued her.
According to Tobu Railway, operations on the Tojo Line resumed on all strains at 6:50 a.m.
When requested about this example, Tobu Railway’s Public Relations Department stated, “There is nothing we can say at this time.”