A young man injured after falling from a train in a tunnel was picked up by another train and taken to hospital Sunday.

The unidentified man said he was on his way from Nanyang in Hennan Province to Guangzhou for work when he fell from the train in the Dayaoshan Mountain tunnel in Lechang, Shaoguan.

He suffered multiple injuries, the Guangzhou Daily reported Monday.

At 9:50 pm Saturday, a railway patrolman, Yang Shixing, telephoned the chief of Tuling Railway Station, Zhang Yongdong, to report an injured man had been found in the tunnel on the Beijing-Kowloon Railway.

Yang was told to go back to the tunnel and stay with the man until Zhang arrived with railway police.

The semiconscious man was found by the team shortly after midnight.

Zhang called the Yangcheng Railway General Co. control center to ask for a one-minute stopover by a temporary train. At 2:08 am Sunday, a train stopped to pick up the injured man, who was taken to the People's Hospital in Pingshi Township where he was reported to be in stable condition.

Police are investigating the accident.

(Shenzhen Daily February 3, 2004)