A man was killed by a subway at the Clot station in Barcelona at 8:40 p.m. on Friday, according to the Urban Police. According to the witnesses' account, the victim would have gone down to the tracks for unknown reasons and could not get out before the train arrived, which did not stop in time.
The accident caused metro line 1 to be affected until 10 p.m. Agents from the Urban Police, the Barcelona Fire Brigade, and personnel from the Emergency Medical Services went to the scene, but they could do nothing to save the man.
After receiving the notification at 8:56 p.m., the Mossos d'Esquadra also appeared and opened an investigation to determine the causes, although everything indicates that it was an accidental death, so there are no indications of criminality or suicide. , as confirmed by the Catalan police to La Vanguardia.
The first indications as well as the testimonies indicate that the man went down to the tracks to pick up an object that had fallen or to urinate, according to ElCaso.cat, although the Catalan police have not confirmed this information.
