A group of students rushed to the aid of a man as he climbed the railing on a walking bridge over Washington Avenue in an attempted suicide Tuesday afternoon.
Two students crossing the bridge wrestled the man off the railing, and several others distracted him until police arrived minutes later.
University of Minnesota senior Alex Rongstad, one of the students on the bridge, described the circumstances as surreal.
“In that situation you want to say something really profound,” Rongstad said.
University police Deputy Chief Chuck Miner said police were able to get the man into a squad car and transported him to the hospital, where he was put on a health and welfare hold.
Reported suicide attempts on campus appear to be becoming more common, Miner said.
“It’s not something that is easy to track per se because they don’t always work their way into a police report,” he said. “On the surface there appears to be more incidents.”
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