周六，广州地铁虚假警报引起乘客恐慌，从而发生践踏事件，6名乘客受轻伤。中午12：52分，地铁3号线一名乘客晕倒，地铁工作人员用对讲机通知列车司机，有乘客大叫“砍人啦！”，“有炸弹”。
Six passengers suffered slight injuries after a false alarm caused panic on a subway train in Guangzhou on Saturday, police said. Police received reports of a large crowd of panic-stricken passengers flooding out of a train at Meihuayuan station on Line 3 at 12:52 pm. A preliminary investigation showed a passenger had fallen ill and fainted on the train. While a subway worker was reporting the situation to the train driver through his walkie-talkie, one passenger shouted, "he was slashed by someone with a knife", and another one yelled, "there's a bomb on the train". Police found nothing suspicious on the train.
