In the early hours of January 7, a tragedy occurred in the ticket office hall at Hangzhou Cheng Station. An old man collapsed after queuing all night to buy a train ticket and never woke up.
Mr. He, a migrant worker from Yunnan Province was one of the eyewitnesses. "I arrived at Hangzhou from Yunnan by train at about 3:00 am, then I went to the ticket office hall at Cheng Station to wait until daybreak. At around 4:30 am, I heard someone saying that an accident had happened at the entrance of the ticket office hall, so I went over there to take a look. That old man looked about 60 years old. His clothes were greyish. He was lying on the ground with a layer of newspapers underneath him. It seemed that he had been queuing and reached the entrance of the hall. The person beside him, who was probably his fellow townsman and looked about 40 years old, said that the old man fell asleep while queuing. Later, he found something wrong with the old man, so he shouted and pulled the old man, but the old man didn't respond," Mr. He said that he did not know who made the emergency call, but soon afterwards, the police car arrived, followed by the ambulance.