Man arrested for pushing suicide jumper off bridge

Beijing May 23- A man in southern China has been taken into police custody after pushing a would-be-suicide jumper off a bridge frequented by people threatening to end their lives, state press said Saturday.

Lai Jiansheng was detained by police for pushing a man named Chen off the bridge in Guangzhou city that has been the site of 12 suicide attempts since the beginning of April, the China Daily said.None of the suicide attempts have been successful, the paper said, but traffic over the bridge has been jammed for hours during each attempt as police sought to talk the people out of ending their lives.“I pushed him off because jumpers like Chen are very selfish. Their actions violate a lot of public interests,” the paper quoted Lai as saying.(AFP)