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Hapless woman threatens suicide to get on plane

(China Daily)
Updated: 2009-01-09 08:48

A young woman suffering from mental illness threatened to commit suicide at an airline check-in counter at the Beijing Capital International Airport on Saturday afternoon unless staff gave her a boarding pass.

The woman, in her early 20s, pressed a paper cutter against her wrist at the counter.

The employee on duty had refused to give the woman a boarding pass after finding out her temporary ID card had expired.

Police arrived on the scene to pacify the woman and nearby passengers were evacuated from the area.

Police later found the woman to be suffering from mental illness after she failed the national college entrance exams years ago.

Cops subsequently notified the woman's family to take her home.

(Beijing Evening News)