A 32-year-old man has been arrested by the police in Bulgarian capital Sofia on suspicions of pushing a woman in front of a train in a local metro station.
After it was initially announced that a young girl was hit by a train at the Lyulin Metro station, later the head of the Sofia Police Directorate, Commissar Valeri Yordanov, clarified that the woman was aged 48.
"We are yet to figure out whether the man pushed the woman on the tracts as a result of some kind of a conflict between them," Yordanov told the Focus news agency, adding that the police had no information about the relationship between the two.
The police have seized the footage from the CCTV cameras, and are interrogating the witnesses.
The 48-year-old woman has been hospitalized in a critical condition.
The engine driver spotted the woman on the tracks, and pulled the emergency brakes but the train nonetheless hit the woman.
The incident led the Sofia Metropolitan company to cancel the incoming and outgoing metro trains in the respective section.