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Answers sought on subway death

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A few onlookers took photos and comforted the 48-year-old mother of a woman whose son died last year in a fall from the platform of Beijing's Gulou Dajie subway station.

On the dusty edge of the platform, Meng Chaohong and her family held large photos of Ma Yue, who died a year ago last Tuesday.

Ma, a Southwest Jiaotong University student, fell to his death at 10.47pm while waiting for the last train of the day. He died of 'abrupt termination of breath and heartbeat from a high-pressure electric shock', traffic police told the family.

In the 12 months since she received the worst phone call of her life, Meng says she is no closer to knowing any more than that. She wants to know how her son died but cannot get access to surveillance-camera recordings of activity on the platform that day. Meng also wants plexiglas safety shields installed at all station platforms.

'Apart from pursuing the truth of my son's death, I am alerting more passengers to the hidden dangers of taking the subway,' she said.

'I hope his death isn't wasted. It would be valuable if his death led to the installation of glass platform shields.'

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