Cancer patient kills himself

(China Daily)
Updated: 2009-11-17 14:27

A cancer patient committed suicide in Xisanqi, Haidian district, on a railway track on Sunday, the Beijing Times reported yesterday.

The man was a lung cancer patient who could not afford treatment, the newspaper said. The man was reported to be in the area visiting his sister.

A railway worker who witnessed the accident said the man was walking alongside the track before he jumped in the path of an oncoming train. He was killed immediately.