Photo: based on media Photojournalist of a regional Chinese newspapers unexpectedly became the author of images which have flown around the world. Been instructed to take photographs of the anomalous mist shrouded Wuhan, journalist accidentally filmed the moment of suicide couples.
The incident occurred on February 27 at the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge, according to China.org.cn. Photojournalist did a report about the unusually dense fog-shrouded city. The pictures are impressive - and supports the opposite bank of the river was not visible and the bridge seemed to hover in the air, led to nowhere.
Inspired by fog in Wuhan, the reporter did not notice that at some distance from it, directly ahead of shooting a man climbed over the railing and jump down. Just a moment later, a photographer heard someone screaming.
"At first I did not understand that the photograph the jump. I focused on the camera and the settings and did not even notice the man sprang to meet his death," - Quoted a British journalist The Mirror, got interested in the incident.
But that is not the end. Just a few seconds later at the same place stepped down yet another suicide. "I listened and heard the splash of water, and then jumped off a bridge woman" - Says the photographer. He called the police outfit arrived after only two minutes, but that was enough to make the bodies claimed the river. They are to this day has never been found, but no doubt that both were killed there - the height of the bridge is about 40 meters.
Thanks to the witnesses and police surveillance cameras able to calculate the identity of the deceased man. They found 20-year-old migrant worker from the neighboring region, came to Wuhan to work. Who killed himself after a woman, presumably, was his lover. However, the relatives of the young man admitted to reporters that about any bride to the young man they had not heard. But he really destitute and worried that a lack of money can not live a normal life and raise a family.
The story of the suicide of a couple in love accidentally filmed testimony confirms this death photographer. According to him, the place where young people jumped into the river, were two black jackets, lying beside woman's handbag and a lighter. A little later, the journalist recalled that for 10 minutes before the tragedy by him on the bridge was a young couple in black jackets, both smoked. Then of course he could not imagine that is the last one who sees love alive, and that will be the one who made them for the last photo.
According to several studies, committed suicide in China every two minutes of 22100 thousand people, according to statistics, end their lives this way, says The Daily Mail. And reportedly, the highest percentage of suicides in young people aged 15 to 34 years.
