At around 7 a.m. yesterday morning, a 32-year-old man climbed onto the Haizhu Bridge in an attempt to reclaim his overdue payments. He was the 12th person to climb the Haizhu Bridge since April. However, unlike those who had gone before him and "walked away gracefully" unharmed, at around 12 p.m., under heavy police guard, a sixty-year-old man quietly crept up beside the jumper and under the pretense of "shaking hands to make friends", pulled and shoved the man causing him to fall from a great height. The jumper suffered fractures in his elbow and lumbar vertebrae while the man who pushed him was arrested on the spot.
The man climbing the bridge caused a 4-hour traffic jam
At around 7:20 a.m. yesterday, a man wearing a white shirt, a baseball cap, and carrying a black backpack evaded the watchful eyes of security personnel and climbed onto the Haizhu Bridge. About 7 meters away from the bridge deck, the man unfurled a red banner and displayed it vertically to passersby as well as throwing an appeal note to journalists. Upon receiving the report, security personnel, police officers, and firefighters subsequently arrived at the scene where they implemented control over the Haizhu Bridge, placed an air mattress, and began negotiations.