The photographer had been standing on a viewing
platform ready to take a snap of the fog shrouded bridge across the Wuhan
Yangtze River in Wuhan, at Hubei province in central China.
He said: ‘The mist was so thick on the bridge so
large that it looked as if the bridge was standing on and disappeared into air.
Like a bridge into nothingness. To be honest I didn’t even see the first person
jump because I was concentrating so much on the camera settings and I didn’t
realise at first that I had snapped the man jumping to his death. It was only
then after snapping the photograph that I heard someone shout that somebody had
jumped. I heard him hit the water below and then seconds later a woman climbed
onto the bridge and jumped as well…….
‘I was totally paralysed – there was no way I
could get anywhere near her, I still had my hand on the camera and I tensed and
shot off another few frames entirely by accident – but ended up photographing
the woman as well.’
Police identified the man from some of the possessions
he left at the top and said he was a 20-year-old migrant worker named as Liu
Han, and believed that the girl who has not yet been identified was his lover.
It is not known why the pair had made a pact to
throw themselves to their deaths.
The boy’s uncle contacted by telephone said that
he knew the young man was struggling to make a living and he can only assume
that it was money that was the problem – as without an income it would have
been difficult for him to settle down with the young woman.
Police who searched the river after seeing the
photographic evidence that the pair jumped failed to find either of the bodies
and after dark the search was called off.
A police spokesman added: ‘That is a 40 metre
drop – it is extremely unlikely that either of them are still alive.’
Suicide rates among young people are high in
China, where a person tries to kill themselves every two minutes, the
government says.
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